User:Jserrat/Jose Asensio Torrado

Born in La Coruña, Spain, José Asensio Torrado (1892-1961) was a Spanish military officer and later Undersecretary in the Ministry of War. At war's end, Asensio was appointed as a military attaché of the exiled Spanish government to the United States, where he lived until his death.

At the start of the Spanish Civil War he was a colonel in the army of the Second Spanish Republic fighting against the fascist forces of Francisco Franco, also known as the Nationalists.