Capt. Conrado D. Yap 1914 Coast Artillery Corps, AFP 10th Battalion Combat Team, PEFTOK For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty against overwhelming enemy forces at Yultong, North Korea on 22-23 April 1951. As Commanding Officer of the Tank Company, Tenth Battalion, Combat Team, Philippine Expeditionary Force to Korea. CAPTAIN YAP was executing a defensive action as an advance element of the frontline defense of the United States Army on 222300 April, when an overwhelmingly superior enemy forces assaulted the PEFTOK positions as part of the enemy’s general offensive. Upon being informed by his most advance unit that the enemy were rushing-in to overrun their hill position and that the leader of this unit FIRST LIEUTENANT JOSE M ARTIAGA was already hit. CAPTAIN YAP, determined to hold their position at all costs, reinforced the trapped unit of LIEUTENANT ARTIAGA and fought the enemy for one hour but without success. Receiving a personal report from a member of a trapped unit who succeeded in extricating himself that the enemy has already captured the position and that LIEUTENANT ARTIAGA and many others were killed, captured or wounded, CAPTAIN YAP, in a desperate effort to rescue the lost unit ordered for covering support from the other units under his command and personally led a furious counterattack to regain the hill position and rescue the trapped unit. This he did despite receiving an authority to withdraw. He succeeded in recovering the body of LIEUTENANT ARTIAGA and that of three (3) other enlisted men when. Not satisfied with this and acting above and beyond the call of duty, he proceeded to assault an enemy emplacement about 300 yards away despite the hail of enemy fires until he fell dead from an enemy bullet. His extraordinary heroism, indomitable courage, calmness and decisiveness won for him and the entire Tenth Battalion Combat Team praises by other allied nations soldiers with whom they are fighting side by side in Korea, and will inevitably form a part of the glorious traditions of our Armed Forces.
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