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Captain Conrado Dumlao Yap

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Birthplace: Candelaria, Zambales, Central Luzon, Philippines
Death: April 23, 1951 (30)
Yultong, Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (Korea, Republic of) (Killed in action by the Chinese during the Battle of Yultong)
Immediate Family:

Son of Cornelio Yap and Mónica Dumlao
Husband of Aurora Nery
Father of Private
Brother of Orlando Yap; Natividad Abad and Angeles Suarez

Occupation: Philippine Army officer
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About Conrado Yap

Conrado Yap was a Philippine Army officer and a recipient the Philippines' highest military award for courage, the Medal of Valor. Yap was one of the 1,367 Filipino troops (1,303 personal, 64 officers) comprising the 10th Battalion Combat Team of the Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK), one of the five Philippine Army Battalion Combat Team's contingent of United Nations Command forces that fought in the Korean War (1950–1953).

He was killed in action in the early morning hours of 23 April 1951 in a successful counterattack against Chinese Communist Forces that overran his hilltop position in territory which currently belongs to South Korea.

Yap was born in Candelaria, Zambales. He was a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy class of 1943 and was the most decorated Filipino serviceman of the Korean War.

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Conrado Yap's Timeline

1921
January 2, 1921
Candelaria, Zambales, Central Luzon, Philippines
1951
April 23, 1951
Age 30
Yultong, Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (Korea, Republic of)