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Captain Juan Pajota (c.

Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? We have created a browser extension. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. Captain Juan Pajota c. He was trained in the 45th Inf. Philippine Scouts, with the rank of Lieutenant, assigned as an Instructor to the 91st Div.

The 91st Div. About December 20, they were ordered to assist the 26th Cavalry Philippine Scouts in Pampanga province and engaged in combat until the retreat to Bataan near the end of December. During the retreat, he and some others of the 91st were cut off by the Japanese and delayed getting into Bataan in January where they found their former training camp had been taken over by the Japanese.

He and another member of the 45th Inf. Philippine Scouts, Maj. This unit included the remnant of the 91st who were with him and new recruits.

Guerrilla Captain Juan Pajota was task with neutralizing approximately Japanese soldiers encamped less than a mile east of the prison camp near the Cabu bridge.

Under the command of Captain later promoted Major Juan Pajota, who coordinated support, this force was responsible for the roadblock at the Cabu River bridge that totally destroyed the Japanese th Independent Infantry Battalion. Without the guerrilla's support it is unlikely that the raid would have been as successful or even succeeded at all.

His intimate knowledge of the enemy's activity, the local people and terrain proved to be crucial to the rescue. His instructions to the local villagers to muzzle their dogs to quell barking at passing American troops was timely and prudent.