Enrique Jurado
Captain
Enrique L. Jurado (July 15, 1911 – October 14, 1944) was an officer in the
Philippine Army – Offshore Patrol during the
Second World War. A graduate of the
United States Naval Academy, Class of 1934, Foreign Midshipman who returned to the Philippines to teach at the
Philippine Military Academy. Later joined its Army Coastal Defense force, the
Offshore Patrol (OSP), as an instructor to its first class of graduates. He was the officer-in-command of the OSP, just before the
Pearl Harbor attack on December 4, 1941. He led his squadron of three torpedo boats (''
Q-111 Luzon'', ''
Q-112 Abra'', ''Q-113 Agusan'') and two gunboats (''Q-115 Baler'' and ''Q-114 Danday'') in the Bataan defense campaign, and managed to escape the Japanese when he ordered his flagship to Batangas. After his escape and recovery, he joined the guerrillas in Panay. Jurado was sent to Mindoro to try to consolidate the guerrillas there, but was killed by a rival guerrilla faction.
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