CALUGAS, JOSE - Medal of Honor Recipient

Rank and organization:   Sergeant, U.S. Army, Battery B, 88th Field Artillery, Philippine Scouts.

Place and date:   At Culis, Bataan Province, Philippine Islands, 16 January 1942.

Entered service at:   Fort Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands.

Birth:   29 December 1907, Barrio Tagsing, Leon, %Iloilo, Philippine Islands.

G.O. No.: 10, 24 February 1942.

Citation:   The action for which the award was made took place near Culis, Bataan Province, Philippine Islands, on 16 January 1942. A battery gun position was bombed and shelled by the enemy until 1 gun was put out of commission and all the cannoneers were killed or wounded. Sgt. Calugas, a mess sergeant of another battery, voluntarily and without orders ran 1,000 yards across the shell-swept area to the gun position. There he organized a volunteer squad which placed the gun back in commission and fired effectively against the enemy, although the position remained under constant and heavy Japanese artillery fire.