Michael Janairo

Here’s a photo of my Lolo, Maximiano Saqui Janairo.

• 1930 graduate of U.S. Military Academy at West Point
• Commission in the Philippine Scouts
• Chief engineer with the Philippine Army in 1941
• Captured by the Japanese in April 1942
• Survived the Bataan Death March
• Prisoner of War in Camp O’Donnell
• Escaped while being transferred to a hospital for malaria and dysentery
• Joined the guerrilla units fighting the Japanese occupation
• Served in Korea during the Korean War
• Served with NATO in Paris
• Retired as a colonel, stationed at the engineer school at Fort Belvoir
• Awarded Legion of Merit “for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States from 8 December 1941 to 9 April 1942”
• Buried at Arlington National Cemetery