Chinese and Korean MISLS Students

The Americans and aliens of Chinese and Korean ancestry are the focus of this project. The registries and album had their names and most of their Army serial numbers. Ancestry.com was used to locate many of them in the censuses, passenger lists, school yearbooks, city directories, military records etc. The National Archives’ Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File was a helpful in confirming information in the registries. Another source was the scrapbook of Oak T. “Lawrence” Jay, my father, who had photographs and ephemera of his time at the MISLS.

DUKYIL WHANG aka DAVID DUKYIL WHANG

(Japanese Language Division)

October 20, 1911, Korea – October 2, 1990, San Jose, California

full name and birth information on draft card

Family tree at Ancestry.com said Whang arrived September 22, 1927, in San Francisco, California

1940 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Saratoga, Santa Clara, California
Occupation: House Boy
Race: Korean

World War II Draft Registration
Residence: Saratoga, California
Registration Date: October 16, 1940

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 39135403
Residence: Saratoga, California
Enlistment: July 2, 1943, San Francisco, California
Camp Savage, July 1943
Release Date: Mach 18, 1946

Naturalized January 7, 1944, Minnesota; changed name to David Dukyil Whang

Family tree at Ancestry.com said Whang married on December 18, 1952, in Tokyo, Japan

Social Security Death Index
Find a Grave

FAY SHONG WONG

(Japanese Language Division)

Listing in The Registry for W. Fay who might be Fay Shong Wong.

1917, Toishan, China –

Passenger List
arrived August 14, 1934, Seattle, Washington from Hong Kong

Passenger List
arrived August 1937, Port Angeles, Washington from Victoria, British Columbia; employed as porter

Passenger List
arrived October 1937, Port Angeles, Washington from Victoria, British Columbia; employed as porter

Passenger List
arrived January 1, 1939, Port Angeles, Washington from Victoria, British Columbia; employed as porter

Passenger List
arrived February 1, 1939, Port Angeles, Washington from Victoria, British Columbia; employed as porter

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 39473506
Residence: Thurston County, Washington
Enlistment: April 7, 1944, Fort Lewis, Washington
Fort Snelling, 1944?; graduated May 19, 1945

World War II Hospital Admission

Admission: April 1944

Diagnosis: Reaction to Typhoid and paratyphoid vaccine

GEORGE S. WONG

(Chinese Language Division)

World War II Serial Number:
Fort Snelling, December 1944

1949 Blue and Gold

University of California, Berkeley

“Crossing Oceans in Service to Country” by Vivian Low

GIN D. WONG

(Chinese Language Division)

World War II Serial Number: 32787187
Fort Snelling, December 1944
(He is not Gin Dan Wong, the architect who died in 2017.)

HARLIN SEEGEE WONG

(Japanese Language Division)

October 10, 1915, Canton, China – November 16, 1994, San Francisco, California
Draft card said born October 10, 1915; Social Security Death Index said April 19, 1914; Social Security application said October 10, 1916

1940 U.S. Federal Census

Home: New York, New York

Home in 1935: Minnesota

Occupation: Painter, WPA

Education: 4 years of college

World War Draft Registration

Residence: New York, New York

Registration: October 16, 1940, New York, New York

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 39839185
Residence: San Francisco, California
Enlistment: May 9, 1942, San Francisco, California
Fort Snelling, 1944?; graduated May 19, 1945

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 7, 1942
page 3

11th Special Service Unit at Camp Bowie Is One of Army’s Most Unusual Outfits
Members include Salesmen, Athletic Instructors, Actors, Movie Men, Truck Drivers.

8,000 Books in Library.

The library groups’ 8,000 books—ranging from Shakespeare to the latest “whodunit”—are divided into four units. Some of the books are of the standard size and binding, but most of them ar the smaller “pocketbook” edition. One of the librarians, Pvt. Harlin Wong, New York City, is a native of Canton, China, and is a well known artist.

Dallas Morning News

(Texas)

March 7, 1943

Soldier-Artists Are Fighting a War, and—
Smart Uncle Sam Helps Them Go on with Their Painting

... Cpl. Harlan S. Wong of Camp Bowie is now painting a huge mural for the service club there. Trained at the Minneapolis Art Institute and the New York Art Students League. ...

Consular Report of Marriage
Name: See Gee Wong [Harlin S G Wong]
Birth: Wong Dee Lee, Chu Gin, Toishan, Kwangtung, China
Spouse's name: Basalle Tse
Spouse's Birth Place: Canton, China
Marriage: February 10, 1947, 27 Fook Hing Road, Shameen, Canton, China

Passenger List
arrived May 19, 1947 with war bride, Basalle Tse, in San Francisco, California from Hong Kong

1950 U.S. Federal Census

Home: San Francisco, California

Occupation: Interpreter

The Northern California District of the Communist Party: Structure, Objectives, Leadership
Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives
Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session
Part 1 May 1, 1960

page 1927

With the assistance of Mr. Stephen K. Louie and Mr. Harlin Wong, of the San Francisco office of the Customs Service, Mr. Fishman focused particular attention on the influx into California of Communist propaganda from the mainland of China and North Korea.

page 1934

Testimony of Irving Fishman, Harlin Wong and Stephen K. Louie

page 1936

To refer very briefly on the overall affect of the overseas Chinese propaganda effort, I have asked Mr. Harlin Wong, of the San Francisco office, to comment on this issue.

page 1947

Mr. Arens: I should like, if it meets with the chairman’s approval, to interrogate briefly Mr. Wong, who is Mr. Fishman’s associate, on one facet of this problem.

Mr. Willis: Proceed.

Mr. Arens: Mr. Wong, you have been sworn by the chairman on this record.

Mr. Wong. Yes, sir.

Mr. Arens. Would you kindly move closer to the microphone? I am sure the committee cannot hear you, Mr. Wong.

Would you give us, please, sir, just a word of your own personal background?

Mr. Wong. I have been employed by the United States Customs Service for 4 years, and previous to that I was employed at the Immigration Service as an interpreter.

Mr. Arens. For purposes of identification, you are of Chinese extraction?

Mr. Wong. That is right.

Mr. Arens. And you read the Chinese language ?

Mr. Wong. Yes, sir.

Mr. Arens. I take it that part of your duty, if not all of your duty, is to maintain a look-out on the processing of the Red Chinese Communist propaganda which is being beamed via, this port of entry; is that correct?

Mr. Wong. That is right.

Mr. Arens. Mr. Wong, I would suggest in the interest of brevity that you proceed at your own pace to tell the committee the significant items of information which, in your judgment, ought to be on this public record.

Mr. Wong. I am assigned to the Restricted Merchandise Unit here in San Francisco as a reviewer of printed materials in the Chinese language. I have been asked to comment on the effect of the Chinese publications sent to the United States, intended for distribution among people of Chinese origin.

There has been a great deal of material, mostly anti-American, and a general discussion of many kinds and types imported would take a great deal of time. I would, however, like to mention one particular phase of this program.

This has to do with the effort made by the Communist line to explain to overseas Chinese that the Govenrment of China affords excellent opportunity for overseas Chinese returning to China and that their problems can be made quite simple for both these returned Chinese and their families.

Mr. Arens. Mr. Wong, do you live in San Francisco?

Mr. Wong. Yes, sir.

Mr. Arens. What is the effect, if you are able to tell us, of the propaganda which is emanating from Red China, let us say on the first generation Americans of Chinese ancestry ?

Mr. Wong. Well, the effect has been considerable. Most Chinese, prior to 1954, did not like the Government of China because of the

page 1948

fact that they were blackmailed and the members of their families tortured. But since they feel by reading this propaganda that the present regime is interested in their welfare, that they don’t have unemployment in China — they feel that China is very good.

I heard some Chinese remark “Who says the Government of China is no good?”

Mr. Arens. The Chinese propaganda coming into the country, and I say this facetiously, of course, does not reveal the commune system which is in existence there, in which families are split up; it doesn’t reveal the millions which have been destroyed, body and soul, by this awful regime in Red China, does it?

Mr. Wong. Well, not generally.

Mr. Arens. Describe a commune, Mr. Wong?

Mr. Wong. A Commune is an organization formed in a particular district or area of China in an attempt to maintain economic self-sufficiency. that is people live together, work together, for the greater part of the day, and they have just barely enough to live by.

Mr. Arens. Are they forced to do so, or is it a voluntary process?

Mr. Wong. Normally they are supposed to enroll according to their own will, but pressure is exerted against them for them to join.

Mr. Arens. Mr. Wong, do you have any other comment you would like to make on this record before we proceed to other matters?

Mr. Wong. No.
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p1951: Mr. Arens. Mr. Chairman, I believe Mr. Wong has an additional comment he wanted to make, if you please.

Mr. Wong. Sir, a little while ago you asked me if the Chinese here in the United States know of the communes. What I was saying is that they don’t actually know the inner organization of the communes, but they have heard of the communes.

The Communist Government is very subtle in hiding what they actually have to do in a commune. All the Chinese Government tells them is that in a commune system they live very well and have nurseries taking care of their children and that their wives are free for work, for construction, and that they are living in government quarters, eating in communal mess halls, and they have no worries.

Polk’s San Francisco City Directory 1966
Harlin S Wong (Twenty-seventh Avenue Market)
6430 California (home)
Basalle T (wife)

Veterans of the Military Intelligence Service
Second National Reunion, November 8–11, 1966
Harlin Wong
6430 California Street
San Francisco, California

San Francisco Chronicle, June 25, 1971
page 3: photograph of Wong with caption, Harlin Wong checked out a box. Customs inspector gave his OK.

Social Security application said in January 1938 name listed as Harlin Seegee Wong; on October 28, 1982 name listed as Harlin See Gee Wong; on December 10, 1994 name listed as Harlin S Wong

Social Security Death Index

American Journal of Public Health, May 2010
Harlin’s son, Winston Wong, MD

Leveling the Field
… Born and raised in San Francisco, he witnessed the bifurcated, bicultural worlds that many populations experience in America. His father, Harlin Wong, immigrated to the United States in the 1920s from rural southern China. After serving in the US Army during World War II, his father was a government interpreter and drug enforcement agent during the day, while spending nights and weekends as a butcher in the family grocery store that Winston's mother Basalle ran. Winston witnessed his parents’ hardships as well as the distinct culture and poverty of the Chinatown ghetto. He drew parallels between what he saw and the calls for equal justice in the movements for civil rights and against the Vietnam war. This knowledge made him acutely aware of the chasm between mainstream and minority.

Fighting on All Fronts: Profiles of World War II Chinese Americans from the Golden State

Montgomery Hom

Chinese Historical Society of America, 2021

Page 220

KIM YOKE WONG

(Chinese Language Division)

November 11, 1906, Canton, China – August 12, 1981, Monterey, California

full name and birth information on draft card

Passenger List
arrived May 23, 1927, San Francisco, California from Hong Kong

World War II Draft Registration
Residence: Salinas, California
Registration Date: October 16, 1940

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 39088086
Residence: Monterey, California
Enlistment: January 30, 1942, Presidio of Monterey, California
Fort Snelling, December 1944
Release Date: June 12, 1946

Chinese in Minnesota
Sherri Gebert Fuller
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009
page 37 sidebar

Fort Snelling Military Intelligence Service Language School

During World War II, sons of Chinese immigrants trained at the War Department’s Military intelligence Service Language School (MISLS) at Camp Savage and later at Fort Snelling. These young men were organized as students in training companies and were later assigned to specific units upon graduation.

The division director was First Lieutenant Ernest K. H. Eng, and Staff Sergeants included Wong Kan, Frank Chen and Yuk Ow.

In 1945 the regiment compiled a Fort Snelling Memoir Book.

…talent scout gives Kim Wong, Shek Wong and Big Lee the once over…

California, Death Index
Kim Yoke Wong, August 12, 1981, Monterey

Fighting on All Fronts: Profiles of World War II Chinese Americans from the Golden State

Montgomery Hom

Chinese Historical Society of America, 2021

Page 221

KUO H. WONG

(Japanese Language Division)

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 35415268
Fort Snelling, February 1944

There may have been a transcription error on the surname Wong. There was a Kuo Hua Wang born August 23, 1900 or 1901 in China. He served in the Army from September 5, 1942 to June 7, 1946. He passed away January 5, 1982 in San Francisco.

QUON GEE WONG

(Chinese Language Division)

October 2, 1908, Oakland, California – November 21, 1987, San Francisco, California

full name and birth information on draft card

1930 U.S. Federal Census

Home: Placer, California

World War II Draft Registration

Residence: San Francisco, California

Registration Date: October 16, 1940

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 39010451

Residence: San Francisco, California

Enlistment Date: July 21, 1941

Enlistment Place: San Francisco, California

Find a Grave

Quon Gee Wong, Tec 4, Army

“RICHARD” SHEW SHANG WONG

(Chinese Language Division)

July 18, 1925, Canton, China –

World War II Draft Registration

Name: Wong Shew Shang

Residence Place: Seattle, Washington

Registration Date: July 19, 1943

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 39216166

Fort Snelling, December 1944

Chinese American WWII Veterans Recognition Project

“ROBERT” KAN WONG

(Chinese Language Division)

September 24, 1915, Har Duey, China – September 29, 1980, San Francisco, California

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 38013459

Name: Wong Y Kan

Residence: Cass, North Dakota

Enlistment Date: January 17, 1946 [reenlisted]

Enlistment Place: Yankton, South Dakota

I Dream of Genealogy: Kan, Wong Y; T/Sergeant; Military Intelligence Service

1950 U.S. Federal Census

Home: Fargo, North Dakota

Occupation: Manager, Ice Cream Store

Naturalized July 9, 1963, King Yee Wong

Chinese Historical Society of America

Called to Rise: Timeline of Chinese Americans in World War II

click arrow to Robert Kan Wong pages

“Crossing Oceans in Service to Country” by Vivian Low (Wong’s daughter)

Chinese in Minnesota
Sherri Gebert Fuller
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009
page 37 sidebar

Fort Snelling Military Intelligence Service Language School

During World War II, sons of Chinese immigrants trained at the War Department’s Military intelligence Service Language School (MISLS) at Camp Savage and later at Fort Snelling. These young men were organized as students in training companies and were later assigned to specific units upon graduation.

The division director was First Lieutenant Ernest K. H. Eng, and Staff Sergeants included Wong Kan, Frank Chen and Yuk Ow.

Fighting on All Fronts: Profiles of World War II Chinese Americans from the Golden State

Montgomery Hom

Chinese Historical Society of America, 2021

Page 218

SANG WONG

(Chinese Language Division)

September 1, 1914, Canton, China – January 12, 1985, San Francisco, California

full name and birth information on draft card

Passenger List

arrived April 22, 1936, Seattle, Washington from Hong Kong; passenger list said birthplace was Hoi Ping

World War II Draft Registration

Residence: West Hartford, Connecticut

Registration: October 16, 1940, Hartford, Connecticut

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 31460991

Residence: Hartford, Connecticut

Enlistment: March 31, 1944, Fort Devens, Massachusetts

Naturalized November 16, 1965, California

SHEK PONG WONG

(Chinese Language Division)

September 20, 1912, Toishan, China – November 26, 1988, San Francisco, California

1928 and 1934 passenger lists said his birthplace was Sunning

Passenger List
arrived March 22, 1928, San Francisco, California from Hong Kong

Passenger List
arrived September 26, 1934, San Francisco, California from Hong Kong

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 32400703
Residence: Bronx, New York
Enlistment: July 7, 1942, Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York
Fort Snelling, December 1944

Chinese in Minnesota
Sherri Gebert Fuller
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009
page 37 sidebar

Fort Snelling Military Intelligence Service Language School

During World War II, sons of Chinese immigrants trained at the War Department’s Military intelligence Service Language School (MISLS) at Camp Savage and later at Fort Snelling. These young men were organized as students in training companies and were later assigned to specific units upon graduation.

The division director was First Lieutenant Ernest K. H. Eng, and Staff Sergeants included Wong Kan, Frank Chen and Yuk Ow.

In 1945 the regiment compiled a Fort Snelling Memoir Book.

…talent scout gives Kim Wong, Shek Wong and Big Lee the once over…

Naturalization: February 24, 1960, San Francisco, California

California, Death Index
Shek P Wong, November 26, 1988, San Francisco

Fighting on All Fronts: Profiles of World War II Chinese Americans from the Golden State

Montgomery Hom

Chinese Historical Society of America, 2021

Page 221

TOM WONG

(Chinese Language Division)

July 31, 1923, China –

World War II Draft Registration

Residence: Augusta, Georgia

Registration Date: June 30, 1942, Augusta, Georgia

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 34939365

Enlistment: July 18, 1944, Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia

Fort Snelling, December 1944

Social Security Death Index

Name: Tom W. Wong [possible match]

Birth Date: July 29, 1923 [draft card said 31]

Issue State: Georgia

Last Residence: People’s Republic of China

Death Date: July 15, 1998

WAH F. WONG

(Chinese Language Division)

HENRY WOO

(Japanese Language Division)

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number:
Camp Savage, July 1943; graduated May 19, 1945

BENJAMIN WU

(Chinese Language Division)

August 15, 1916, Bakersfield, California – February 22, 1953, California

full name and birth information on draft card

1930 U.S. Federal Census

Home: Berkeley, California

Institution: Chang Mei Home

1940 U.S. Federal Census

Home: San Jose, California

Occupation: Cook and Secretary

World War II Draft Registration

Residence Place: Milpitas, California

Registration Date: October 16, 1940

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 39091649

Enlistment Date: March 6 1942, Presidio of Monterey

Fort Snelling, December 1944

Find a Grave

HING GET YEE

(Chinese Language Division)

August 5, 1910, Tik Toy, China –

World War II Draft Registration

Name: Yee Hing Get

Home: Detroit, Michigan

Registration: October 16, 1940, Detroit, Michigan

World War II Navy Muster Roll

Name: Yee H Get, T/5, 36540083

Ship: General John Pope, AP-110

Muster Date: July 27, 1944

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 36540083

Fort Snelling, December 1944

I Dream of Genealogy: Get, Yee H; Military Intelligence Service

Chinese American WWII Veterans Recognition Project

H. YEE

(Chinese Language Division)

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number:
Fort Snelling, December 1944

KENNETH FOO YEE

(Chinese Language Division)

June 16, 1925, San Francisco, California – August 3, 2003, Massachusetts

English High School, Boston, Massachusetts

graduated 1943; Third Regiment

World War II Draft Registration

Residence: Boston, Massachusetts

Registration: June 16, 1943, Boston, Massachusetts

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 31425898
Residence: Boston, Massachusetts
Enlistment: December 2, 1943, Boston, Massachusetts
Fort Snelling, December 1944
Release Date: August 29, 1946

1950 U.S. Federal Census

Home: Boston, Massachusetts

1951, University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts Commencement 1951
Candidates for Degree of Bachelor of Science
Kenneth F. Yee

University of Massachusetts Bulletin: Annual Undergraduate Catalogue, 1953–1954
Amherst, Massachusetts
page 263: Degrees Conferred 1952
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
Kenneth F. Yee

1957 Boston, Massachusetts, City Directory

Name: Kenneth F Yee

Street address: 48 Hudson

Social Security application said, in October 1946, name listed as Kenneth Foo Yee; on August 7, 2003 name listed as Kenneth F Yee.

Find a Grave

Boston Globe

(Massachusetts)

August 7, 2003

Yee, Kenneth F. of Boston, Aug. 3, 2003. Beloved brother of the late Donald, as well as Ronald D. Yee of So. Weymouth, Wendell F. Yee of Watertown, Virginia Laime of ME, Linda L. Yee of Weymouth, Nancy L. Wong of Randolph, and Susan G. Woo of Randolph. Also survived by several nieces and nephews. Visiting hours in the Chapel of the Louis M. Kfoury Funeral Home, 420 Harvard St., (between Beacon St. and Commonwealth Ave.), Brookline, Thursday 6-8 PM, followed by the Funeral Service at 8 PM. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. Interment MA National Cemetery. Bourne. Mr. Yee was a U.S. Army veteran of WW II and past English secretary of the Yee Family Assoc. of Boston.

NGIN YUEN YEE

(Chinese Language Division)

August 15 or September 25, 1923, Toishan, China – April 19, 1996, Framingham, Massachusetts
Massachusetts, Death Index and Department of Veterans Affairs said August 15; draft card, Social Security application and Social Security Death Index said September 25; 1936 passenger list had birthplace

Passenger List
arrived August 4, 1936, Boston, Massachusetts from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

World War II Draft Registration

Residence: Framingham, Massachusetts

Registration Date: June 30, 1942

Employer: Gee Sam Laundry

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 11113387
Residence: Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Enlistment: October 19, 1942, Boston, Massachusetts
Fort Snelling, December 1944
Release Date 1: May 15, 1946

Passenger List
arrived with war bride, Sau Hang Yee, in San Francisco, California on October 27, 1948 from Shanghai, China

Framingham, Massachusetts, City Directory
1953 and 1960 listings said he was an employee

Boston Globe

(Massachusetts)

April 21, 1996

Ngin Jimmy Y. Yee of Framingham, April 19, 1996. Devoted husband of Sau Yee. Beloved father of Joe M. F. Yee and his wife Jeanne of Sher-[illegible] Kent J. Yee and his wife Betty of Hopkinton. Gong J. Yee and his wife An of Saudia Arabia Chang J. Yee of Billerica, Jeanne Chin and her husband Dr Albert Chin of Palo Alto, CA. Millie Lee and her husband Danny of Holliston. Boli Lee and her husband Jim of Jacksonville, FL. and the late Sally Lee Brother of Fay Gee of Winchester. Also survived by 16 Grandchildren. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral from the Louis M. Ktoury Funeral Home, 420 Harvard St. at the intersection of Fuller St. (between Beacon St. and Commonwealth Ave.) Brookline. Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock and to the Burial Service at Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain. Visiting hours Monday 2-4 and 7-9 P M. Late U. S. Army Veteran WWII and graduate of MIT School of Civil Engineering.

TUNG KWUN YEE aka EDMUND T.K. YEE aka TED YEE

(Chinese Language Division)

December 15, 1917, Canton, China – June 19, 2009, San Francisco, California
full name and birth information on draft card; 1941 passenger list said birthplace was Toishan

Passenger List
arrived March 13, 1941, San Francisco, California from Hong Kong

World War II Draft Registration
Residence: San Francisco, California
Registration Date: April 21, 1941

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 39033802
Fort Snelling, December 1944
Residence: San Francisco, California
Enlistment: January 29, 1946

Release Date: April 8, 1947

Naturalization: August 23, 1960, San Francisco, California; birth year, 1918

DONALD YEP

(Japanese Language Division)

February 22, 1921, Minneapolis, Minnesota – July 24, 1981, San Francisco, California

full name and birth information on draft card
California, Death Index and Social Security Death Index have February 14 as birth date

World War II Draft Registration
Residence: San Francisco, California
Registration Date: February 16, 1942

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 19185190
Residence: San Francisco, California
Enlistment: November 2, 1942, San Francisco, California; served in Army Air Corps
Camp Savage, July 1943
Release Date: November 20, 1945

1959 San Francisco, California, City Directory
Name: Donald Yep
Street address: 961 Pacific Avenue
Occupation: Assistant Civil Engineer

California, Death Index
Name: Donald Yep, July 24, 1981, San Francisco
Social Security Death Index

San Francisco Chronicle

(California)

July 29, 1981

Yep, Donald—In this city, July 24, 1981, Donald Yep; beloved husband of Ruth Yep; devoted father of John and Debbie Yep; father-in-law of Marsha Lee Yep; dear brother of Tom, Albert, George, Denny Yep and Daisy Yim; beloved uncle of many nieces and nephews.

Friends are invited to attend the funeral service Friday, July 31, 1981 at 1 p.m. at the Chapels of Green Street Mortuary, 649 Green St. Visitation Thursday, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Interment, Woodlawn Memorial Park, Colma. Donations to On Lok House, 1441 Powell St., S.F. preferred.

DONG CHAN YI

(Japanese Language Division)

January 3, 1920, Honolulu, Hawaii – November 26, 2011, California
full name and birth information on draft card; enlistment record classified him as Japanese

Hawaii Birth Certificate

Name: Dong Chan Yi

Birth Date: January 3, 1920

Birthplace: Honolulu, Honolulu

Father: Yi Kiu Yuen

Mother: Martha Shong

1920 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Honolulu, Hawaii
Race: Korean

Passenger List
departed July 16, 1926, Honolulu, Hawaii to Korea

Passenger List
arrived August 19, 1938, Honolulu, Hawaii from Yokohama, Japan

1940 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Honolulu, Hawaii
Race: Korean

World War II Draft Registration
Residence: Honolulu, Hawaii
Registration Date: July 1, 1941

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 30107723
Enlistment: January 3, 1944, Honolulu, Hawaii
Fort Snelling, February 1944

Passenger List
departed August 27, 1946, Honolulu, Hawaii to San Francisco, California

Crew List
Name: Dong Chan Yi
Race: Korean
Occupation: Japanese Interpreter
Ship: President Cleveland
Departure: Manila
Arrival: April 25, 1952, Honolulu, Hawaii

California Marriage Index

Marriage: June 26, 1953, Los Angeles, California

Spouse: Sallie L. Dunn

1968 California Voter Registration

Street Address: Geraldine Rd 10612, Orange, California

Party: Democrat

Find a Grave

KENNETH WON MARN YOON

(Japanese Language Division)

May 17, 1917, Honolulu, Hawaii – February 27, 2012, ?
full name and birth information on draft card

Hawaii Birth Certificate

Name: Kenneth Won Marn Yoon

Birth Date: May 17, 1917

Birthplace: Honolulu, Oahu

Father: Yoon Chang Nock

Mother: Park Duck Nock

Passenger List
arrived September 5, 1938, Los Angeles, California from Honolulu, Hawaii; hand-written notation, file #4333/18867, Korean

Passenger List
arrived October 18, 1938, Honolulu, Hawaii from Los Angeles, California

Passenger List
arrived September 1, 1939, Los Angeles, California from Honolulu, Hawaii

World War II Draft Registration
Residence: Honolulu, Hawaii
Registration Date: October 16, 1940

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: O-432908 [officer]
Camp Savage, July 1943

1950 U.S. Federal Census

Home: Honolulu, Hawaii

Occupation: Probation officer

Industry: Territory Circuit Court

Married with two children

Social Security Death Index
Find a Grave

CHO G. YOUNG

(Japanese Language Division)

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: 19136858
Fort Snelling, February 1944; graduated May 19, 1945

Possible match

1960 California Voter Registration

Name: Cho G. Young

Address: 801 E. Fredricks St. Barstow, San Bernardino, California

Party: Republican

Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File

Name: Cho Young

Birth: August 12, 1910

Death: May 25, 1998

Branch 1: Army

Enlistment: March 6, 1942

Release: October 25, 1945

Find a Grave

QUAN HONG YUEN

(Chinese Language Division)

March 19, 1905, Honolulu, Hawaii – November 1, 1995, Honolulu, Hawaii

1928, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii

1930 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Honolulu, Hawaii
Race: Chinese

1933–1938, Honolulu, Hawaii, City Directories
Occupation: Assistant Chemist, Exp Sta HSPA

1940 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Honolulu, Hawaii
Occupation: Chemist
Race: Chinese

World War II Enlistment

Serial Number: O-253189 [officer]
Enlistment: December 7, 1941, Honolulu, Hawaii
Fort Snelling, December 1944
Release Date: July 23, 1946

Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II (2006)
page 227

In July CASA added Chinese-language classes in anticipation of landings on the coast of China. Capt. Quan H. Yuen, a Chinese American and the only officer to graduate from the MISLS Chinese course, taught the classes.

1947–1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, City Directories
Occupation: Chemist, Exp Sta HSPA

1950 U.S. Federal Census

Home: Honolulu, Hawaii

Occupation: Chemist

Married with two children

U.S. Army Register, Volume 1, 1951
page 1286: Quan H Yuen, Major, retired July 23, 1946

U.S. Army Register, Volume 2, 1966
page 422: Quan H Yuen, Major, retired July 23, 1946

U.S. Army Register, Volume 3, 1972
page 393: Quan H Yuen, Major, retired July 1946

1974 Honolulu, Hawaii, City Directory
Occupation: Retired

Social Security Death Index
Find a Grave

Honolulu Advertiser

(Hawaii)

November 4, 1995

Quan Hong Yuen, 90, of Honolulu, died Nov. 1, 1995. He was born in Waipahu and was a retired major of the U.S. Army and World War II veteran. He was a chemist retired from Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association Experiment Station. Survived by wife, Foo Gin; sons, William and Stephen; daughter, Renee; two granddaughters; sisters, Kam In Chong and Bessie Nishida. Inurnment service 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Columbarium. Aloha attire. No flowers; donations to Punahou School or a favorite charity.

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