Subdeacon Joe Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Joe Lovell · Shared with Public Emmanuel Brazil VirayPhilippine Scouts Heritage Society (Official) · 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantry Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 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 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Creek,5759 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 If I remember correctly the Philippines, were. A territory of the U.S. then. It became a territory with the SPANISH, AMERICAN WAR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 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]" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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