2nd Lt. Roberto Hidalgo Lim

[Subdeacon Joe]

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2 LIEUTENANT ROBERTO H. LIM

2nd Lt. Roberto Hidalgo Lim is the son of Gen. Vicente Lim of the 41st Infantry Division. He was still at the United States Naval Academy when war broke out. He could not serve in the US Navy as he was a Filipino citizen, and thus he joined the 1st Filipino Regiment when it was mobilized in Camp San Luis Obispo in California. A few months later he joined the US Army Air Corps and trained as a pilot of a B-29 Superfortress, joining the bombing raids in Japan. Date: 1 March 1942

[Alpo]

That doesn't make any sense.

 

You go to a military academy. They educate you and train you for free, with the understanding that when you graduate you go into the military.

 

So this guy was not able to join our military because he was not a US citizen, but he was at one of our military academies?

[Subdeacon Joe]

31 minutes ago, Alpo said:

That doesn't make any sense.

 

You go to a military academy. They educate you and train you for free, with the understanding that when you graduate you go into the military.

 

So this guy was not able to join our military because he was not a US citizen, but he was at one of our military academies?

 

Probably had something to do with the Commonwealth status of the Philippines.

[Chantry]

6 hours ago, Alpo said:

That doesn't make any sense.

 

You go to a military academy. They educate you and train you for free, with the understanding that when you graduate you go into the military.

 

So this guy was not able to join our military because he was not a US citizen, but he was at one of our military academies?

 

Foreigners are allowed to attend West Point (I presume it applies to other US service academies as well)

https://www.westpoint.edu/admissions/prospective-cadets/international-cadets

 

[Bailey Creek,5759]

If I remember correctly the Philippines, were. A territory of the U.S. then.

It became a territory with the SPANISH, AMERICAN WAR.

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Bailey Creek,5759 said:

If I remember correctly the Philippines, were. A territory of the U.S. then.

It became a territory with the SPANISH, AMERICAN WAR.

 

At that time it was a Commonwealth.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_the_Philippines

 

"The Commonwealth of the Philippines (Spanish: Commonwealth de Filipinas[7] or Mancomunidad de Filipinas;[8] Tagalog: Komonwelt ng Pilipinas[9]) was an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States that existed from 1935 to 1946. It was established following the Tydings–McDuffie Act to replace the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands[10][11][12][13] and was designed as a transitional administration in preparation for full Philippine independence.[14] Its foreign affairs remained managed by the United States.[15]"