Friday, March 22, 2019

Profiles of the MISLS Students of Chinese and Korean Ancestry with Surnames Beginning with D—K

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.


KAO T. DUNG aka TSE DUNG KAO aka DAN KWONG
(Japanese Language Division)
March 21, 1917, Che Kong, China – March 6, 1982, New York











Kao T. Dung may be a paper son name because the Chinese characters read Lam See Chung.

World War II Draft Card
Name: Tse Dung Kao
Residence: New York, New York
Registration: January 22, 1943, New York, New York

World War II Enlistment
Name: Kao Dung
Serial Number: 32901858
Residence: New York, New York
Enlistment: May 3, 1943, New York City
Camp Savage, February 1944
I Dream of Genealogy: Dung, K; Military Intelligence Service

Passenger List
arrived November 27, 1945, New York, New York

Duty & Honor: A Tribute to Chinese American World War II Veterans of Southern California
Edited by Marjorie Lee
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 1997
page 232: National Dollar Store’s War Bond Drive
Dan Kwong photograph, second row, fifth column 

Find a Grave
Calverton National Cemetery


EDDIE ENG
(Chinese Language Division)
Possible matches

World War II Draft Card
Name: Eddie Eng
Birth Date: October 28, 1924
Residence Place: Chicago, Illinois
Registration Date: December 18, 1942
Registration Place: Illinois
Occupation: Student, University of Illinois

World War II Draft Card
Name: Edward Eng
Birth Date: December 25, 1916
Birth Place: Canton, China
Registration Date: October 16, 1940
Registration Place: New York, New York
Occupation: Student, University of Wisconsin

World War II Draft Card
Name: Edward Poon Fook Eng 
Birth Date: September 26, 1914
Residence Place: Pullman, Washington
Registration: October 16, 1940, Washington

Ng Yook Lum changed name to Eddie Eng
May 13, 1943, Naturalization Application, U.S. Armed Forces


ERNEST KWOK HING ENG
(Chinese Language Division)
February 10, 1920, Norfolk, Virginia– June 29, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia

1940 U.S. Federal Census
Residence: Norfolk, Virginia
Occupation: Student

Matthew Fontaine Maury High School
Name: Earnest [sic] Kwok Hing Eng
School Location: Norfolk, Virginia


















World War II Draft Card
Residence Place: Norfolk, Virginia
Registration: July 1, 1941, Norfolk, Virginia

World War II Serial Number:
Residence: Springfield, Massachusetts
Enlistment: October 1, 1942, Springfield, Massachusetts
Fort Snelling, December 1944
I Dream of Genealogy: Eng, E; Military Intelligence Service

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.
1950 U.S. Federal Census
Residence: Presidio of Monterey, California
Occupation: Armed Forces

1958 Silver Spring, Maryland, City Directory
Name: Ernest K H Eng
Street address: 4815 Falstone Avenue
Occupation: United States Army
Spouse: Anita B Eng

U.S. Army Register, Volume 2, 1966
Ernest K. H. Eng Lieutenant Colonel, retired November 1, 1962

U.S. Army Register, Volume 3, 1972
Ernest K. H. Eng Lieutenant Colonel, retired November 1, 1962

Museum of Chinese in America
Ernest K. H. Eng Collection

Social Security Death Index
Find a Grave

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
July 2, 2010, obituary

Fighting on All Fronts: Profiles of World War II Chinese Americans from the Golden State
Montgomery Hom
Chinese Historical Society of America, 2021
Page 52


STANLEY ENG
(Chinese Language Division)


W. FAY
see Fay S. Wong

THOMAS HONG GEE
(Japanese Language Division)
August 27, 1915, Canton, China – March 7, 1999, San Francisco, California
full name on draft card

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

World War II Enlistment
Serial Number: 39445277
Residence: San Francisco, California
Enlistment: August 4, 1945, Camp Beale, Marysville, California
Fort Snelling, 1944–1945
I Dream of Genealogy: Gee, Thomas H; Military Intelligence Service; Headquarter Company

Naturalized January 28, 1946, St. Paul, Minnesota

San Francisco Chronicle
March 16, 1999
Thomas Gee
A funeral was held Saturday for Thomas Gee, a lawyer and former San Francisco library commissioner and a past president of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. Mr. Gee, 83, died March 7 of a heart attack in his San Francisco home.

Mr. Gee, a library commissioner in the mid-1990s, helped oversee the construction of the new main library.

A native of Canton, China, Mr. Gee came to the United States in 1929. He was a 1941 graduate of San jose State College. He served as a sergeant in the Army Air Corps, and was assigned to the U.S. Military Intelligence Language School. He was a 1954 graduate of Lincoln University Law School and a longtime administrative law judge for the state of Nevada in Las Vegas.

He served as president of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association in 1948 and in 1991. In the 1970s, he was founder and administrator of Northeast Medical Services, a Chinatown health organization. He also served on the board of two other prominent Chinatown social service organizations, On Lok Senior Health Services and Self Help for the Elderly.

He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Gladys; by his daughter, Gayling Gee of San Francisco; by three sons, Gaylord Gee of Folsom, Gayman Gee of Simi Vally, and Gayland Gee of Malvern, Pa.; and by six grandchildren.

Contribution to On Lok Senior Health Services, 1333 Bush St., San Francisco, Calif. 94190, are suggested.
Social Security Death Index
Find a Grave 


YEE H. GET
see Hing Get Yee


H. GONG
(Chinese Language Division)

World War II Serial Number: 
Fort Snelling, December 1944
I Dream of Genealogy: Gong, H; Military Intelligence Service


JIN HING GOON
(Japanese Language Division)
April 20, 1907, Ai Men, Sunning, China – December 18, 1982, Broward, Florida
full name and birthplace from Chinese Exclusion Act case file











Passenger List
arrived September 5, 1921, Vancouver B.C. from Hong Kong

Passenger List
arrived April 11, 1927, Seattle, Washington from Hong Kong

Passenger List
arrived February 25, 1931, San Francisco, California from Hong Kong

Passenger List
arrived May 17, 1932, Seattle, Washington from Hong Kong

Passenger List
arrived April 10, 1935, New York City from New York City

Chinese Exclusion Act Case File
Name: Jin Hing Goon
Alias: Yee Bon Goon
Occupation: Son of merchant
Case Number(s): 133, 40; box 410; New York, New York

1932–1937, Boston, Massachusetts, City Directories
Occupation: Artist

World War II Draft Registration
Residence: Long Island City, Queens, New York
Registration: October 16, 1940
Employer: Ruby Foo’s [Restaurant]

World War II Enlistment
Serial Number: 32705796
Enlistment: January 11, 1943
Camp Savage, July 1943
Release Date: September 26, 1945
I Dream of Genealogy: Goon, Jin H; Military Intelligence Service

Naturalized August 13, 1943, New York, New York

New Jersey Marriage Index
Spouse: Lily C. Hom
Marriage: August 1958, Lavallette, New Jersey

Social Security Death Index


WONG W. GUEY
(Chinese Language Division)
Possible matches

Wong Wah Guey
World War II Draft Registration
Birth: March 20, 1918, Buck Gay, China
Residence: Newark New Jersey
Registration: October 16, 1940
Serial Number: 32247852
Enlistment: March 9, 1942, Fort Dix, New Jersey

Wong Wah Guey
World War II Draft Registration
Birth: September 10, 1921, Canton, China
Residence: Yonkers, New York
Registration: February 15, 1942

California Death Index
Name: Wong W Guey
Birth Date: October 3, 1917
Death Date: February 2, 1975, Sacramento


SU C. HO
(Japanese Language Division)
1905, China –












Passenger List
arrived November 11, 1937, New York City

World War II Enlistment
Serial Number: 32632700
Residence: New York, New York
Enlistment: November 17, 1942, New York City
Camp Savage, July 1943; graduated May 19, 1945
I Dream of Genealogy: Ho, Su C; Military Intelligence Service

World War II Hospital Admission Card File
Admission Date: April 1944
Diagnosis: Measles (rubeola)


SAMUEL KYUNG SOOK HONG
(Japanese Language Division)
May 17, 1919, Honolulu, Hawaii – June 21, 2003, Hilo, Hawaii
full name and birth information on draft card

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

1930 U.S. Federal Census
Home: South Kona, Hawaii, Hawaii Territory
Race: Korean

1940 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Hilo, Hawaii
Race: Korean
Occupation: Tailor

Nippu Jiji, September 30, 1940
page 2
University ROTC Officers Named
Maj. Maurice S. Kerr, in charge of the University of Hawaii ROTC unit, has announced the appointment of student officers for the regiment.  
Non-commissioned officers are: …Samuel K. S, Hong…
1942, University of Hawaii







World War II Draft Registration
Residence: Hilo, Hawaii, Hawaii
Registration Date: February 14, 1942

World War II Enlistment
Serial Number: O-445562
Enlistment: March 31, 1942
Camp Savage, July 1943
Release Date: July 5, 1975
I Dream of Genealogy: Hong, Samuel K.S; Military Intelligence Service

1950 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Honolulu, Hawaii
Race: Korean

American Cryptology During the Cold War, 1945–1989
Book I: The Struggle for Centralization 1945–1960
Thomas R. Johnson
National Security Agency, 1995
page 155: [124] …Oral interview with Samuel K. S. Hong, Dec. 9, 1986, by R. D. Farley, Honolulu, Hawaii, NSA OH 40-86.

Honolulu Advertiser, June 26, 2003
Samuel Kyung Sook “Sam” Hong, 84, of Hilo, Hawai’i, died June 21, 2003. Born in Honolulu. Retired National Security Agency analyst; and wartime recipient of the Bronze Star. Survived by wife, Mariko; son, Gerald; daughters, Patricia Hong and Stephanie Rosselle; brothers, Daniel and David; sisters, Edith Kong, Elizabeth Ahn and Mary Lee; two grandsons. Visitation 3 to 4 p.m. Saturday at The Church of the Holy Cross; service 4 p.m. No flowers. Casual attire. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, June 26, 2003
Samuel Kyung Sook “Sam” Hong, 84, of Hilo, a retired National Security Agency analyst, died Saturday at home. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Mariko K.; son Gerald W.; daughters Patricia A. Hong and Stephanie L. Rosselle; brothers Daniel and David; sisters Edith Kong, Elizabeth Ahn and Mary Lee; and two grandchildren. Services: 4 p.m. Saturday at the Church of the Holy Cross. Call after 3 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.
Social Security Death Index
Find a Grave


PETER HYUN
(Japanese Language Division)
August 15, 1906, Lihue, Hawaii – August 25, 1993, Oxnard, California

Passenger List
arrived May 24, 1924, Honolulu, Hawaii from Shanghai, China

Passenger List
arrived August 31, 1928, Los Angeles, California from Honolulu, Hawaii

Passenger List
arrived September 15, 1932, Honolulu, Hawaii from San Francisco, California

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

Passenger List
arrived January 19, 1940, Honolulu, Hawaii from Los Angeles, California

World War II Draft Registration
Residence: Honolulu, Hawaii
Registration Date: October 26, 1940

World War II Enlistment
Serial Number: 101000837
Fort Snelling, February 1945

Passenger List
arrived in Seattle, Washington on May 5, 1946 from Jinsen, Korea

Social Security Death Index

Los Angeles Times, September 4, 1993
Peter Hyun; Director and Author Chronicled Korean-Americans
Peter Hyun, 87, director and author who chronicled the history of his Korean-American family. Born in Hawaii, Hyun grew up in Korea and China and studied theater arts at DePauw University in Indiana. Starting as an assistant stage manager in New York, Hyun advanced during the Depression, becoming director in 1936 of the Children’s Theater of the New York Federal Theater, a Works Progress Administration project to aid out-of-work actors. His play “Revolt of the Beavers” became the first WPA production to appear on Broadway. Hyun worked in Army intelligence during World War II, serving as liaison officer in the American military government in Korea. Later he directed plays, lectured on Asian studies at UCLA and operated a Chinese restaurant called the House of Hyun in Laguna Beach. As an octogenarian, Hyun published his first book, “Man Sei: The Making of a Korean-American,” in 1980. A sequel on his family history, “Man Sei II,” will be published by the University of Hawaii. On Aug. 25 in Oxnard of cancer.
In the New World: The Making of a Korean American (1995)
Man Sei!: The Making of a Korean American (1996)
The Theatre Times
Leaving for Good: Two New Plays on Korean Immigrants and the Cold War


TIM GEORGE JANG
(Chinese Language Division)
born Gock Pain Jang
January 16, 1920 or 1921, Sacramento, California – November 5, 1996, San Leandro, California
full name and birth information on draft card

Passenger List
Gock Pain Jang arrived March 6, 1930, San Francisco, California from Hong Kong

1930 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Sacramento, California
Race: Chinese

World War II Draft Registration
Residence: Sacramento, California
Registration Date: February 5, 1942

World War II Enlistment
Serial Number: 39401534
Residence: Sacramento, California
Enlistment: October 30, 1942, Sacramento, California
Fort Snelling, December 1944

1950 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Oakland, California
Occupation: Architect, Building Engineer
Married with two daughters

American Institute of Architects
AIA Historical Directory of American Architects: Tim George Jang

Social Security Death Index

(California)
November 7, 1996
Jang, Tim G.
In San Leandro, CA, Nov. 5, 19. Loving husband of Angie Jang; beloved father of Madelena Jang (Robert) Tinsley, Darlene Jang (Wayne) Barcelon, Timothy (Dianne) Jang and Gigi Jang (Kevin) Perry; loving husband of the late Madeline Jang; cherished grandfather of six: loving brother of Ellen Jang. Also survived by many loving nieces, nephews and friends. Past Board Member of the Gway Sen Benv. Assoc. of S.F., Yeong Wo Assoc. and the Chinese Hospital of S.F., Past Board Member and Designer of the Chinese Looksan Cemetery of Colma and the Chinese Community Center of Oakland. Friends and relatives are cordially invited to attend the visitation on Friday, Nov. 19 8-9pm at the Chapels of the Green Street Mortuary, 649 Green St., S.F., CA. Funeral Services to follow on Saturday at 12.00pm, Interment Looksan Cemetery, Colma, CA. 
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


OAK TON “LAWRENCE” JAY
(Japanese Language Division)
June 28, 1922, Chicago, Illinois – Casa Grande, Arizona, October 30, 2003


















1930 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Chicago, Illinois
Race: Chinese

Passenger List
arrived October 4, 1938, Seattle, Washington from Hong Kong

1940 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Chicago, Illinois
Race: Chinese

1942, Mark Keppel High School, Alhambra, California

World War II Enlistment
Serial Number: 39264243
Residence: Los Angeles, California
Enlistment: November 4, 1942, Los Angeles, California
Camp Savage, February 1944; graduated May 19, 1945
Release Date: April 11, 1946

1950 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Superior, Arizona
Occupation: Grocery Clerk
Married with one daughter

Social Security Death Index

Casa Grande Dispatch, November 6, 2003
Oak Ton“Larry” Jay, 81, a longtime Casa Grande Valley grover, died Oct. 30, 2003 at home of cancer.

A private service was planned.

Mr. Jay was born June 28, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, the fourth of nine children of Jay W. Rapp and Jennie Soo Hoo Shee. The family moved to southern China in the 1930s but returned to Chicago with the Japanese invasion of the country. For part of his high school education, he moved to Southern California and found the weather more to his liking. He served in the Army during World War II and studied Japanese at the Military Intelligence Service language school at Fort Snelling, Minn. As a technician fourth grade, he served as a translator in the Philippines and Korea.

After his honorable discharge in 1946, He learned the grocery trade from an uncle, O.C. Hing, in Superior. After his marriage to Laura Chin in 1948, they briefly lived in Eloy before moving to Coolidge and operating Time Market on North Main Street. In 1960, he and brother-in-law Allen Chin began managing the Geo. Y. Wah in downtown Casa Grande. Mrs. Jay continued operating the Time Market. In March 1964, the Larry-Allen Supermarket opened, a leader in the move of stores from downtown to Florence Boulevard. At Florence and Amarillo Street, the building now includes Round Trip Bike Shop and other businesses. The family moved to Casa Grande that summer.

In addition to his wife, survivors include three daughters, Mary Chumbley of Maui, Hawaii, Vicki Morgenstern of Long Island, N.Y., and Lisa of Los Angeles; two sons, Alex Jay of Brooklyn, New York City, and Allen Jay of Gilbert; two sisters, Lora Chin of San Francisco and Alice Jay of Chicago; three brothers, Walter Jay of San Francisco, Howard Jay of Phoenix, and Arnold Jay of New York City; and six grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to RTA Hospice Foundation, 1675 E. Monument Plaza Drive, Casa Grande, AZ 85222.

J. Warren Funeral Services, Cole & Maud Casa Grande Chapel was in charge of arrangements.

LARRY JEW
(Chinese Language Division)
born Sue Kin Jew
April 7, 1925, San Francisco, California – September 17, 2021, San Francisco, California

California Birth Index
Name: Sue Kin Jew
Birth: April 7, 1925, San Francisco

Passenger List
Sue Kin Jew arrived January 22, 1931, San Francisco, California from Hong Kong






















World War II Draft Registration
Residence: San Francisco, California
Registration Date: April 10, 1943

World War II Enlistment
Serial Number: 39139640
Residence: San Francisco, California
Enlistment: September 7, 1943, San Francisco, California
Fort Snelling
Release Date: May 1946

Married May I. Huey, June 17, 1956

1970 San Francisco, California, City Directory
Residence: 737 Clay 982-4011

(California)
September 24, 2021
Larry Jew, MD
April 7, 1925 – September 17, 2021
Larry Jew passed away peacefully on September 17, 2021 at the age of 96 in San Francisco, California where he was born and raised. Born on April 7, 1925 to his father Chee Jew and mother Lum Shee, he was the oldest brother among his siblings, Jack, Merrill, and Peter. He also had half-siblings: George, Dorothy, Mary, Henry and Petrius.

He went to Chinese school before he went to Jean Parker Elementary where he had to learn his ABCs quickly because he didn’t know a word of English. Next was Marina Junior High and then Galileo High School. During his senior year Pearl Harbor occurred, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Because of his bilingual knowledge, he became an interpreter in the intelligence services based out of Fort Snelling, Minnesota. He served in Indo-China and then in Shanghai. He was honorably discharged in May 1946.

Post-war, Larry had to go to CCSF to make up his high school credits before going on to University of California, Berkeley for his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences and then to Stanford University School of Medicine for his doctorate in Medicine. Finally in 1951, he arrived at San Francisco General Hospital for his internship and then residencies at San Joaquin General Hospital and San Mateo General Hospital followed. The lure of his hometown was too strong and he decided to hang his shingle with brother Jack in 1957 where he served the Chinatown community until 2014. He would become Chief of Medical Staff at Chinese Hospital (1975–1976) and worked hard to change and update the bylaws and how hospital business would be conducted. As for the practice, it is still operating today and presided by his son, Nicholas who joined the practice in 1994.

While at medical school in the winter of 1953, Larry met a young undergraduate from UC Berkeley on a blind date. At the end of the date, he asked if he could see her again. May said to call her next year since she was returning to Stockton for the winter break. He thought it was a brush off. Luckily, May had a happenstance meeting with Jack and was told that Larry was at San Joaquin General Hospital for his internship! So she called him and the rest is history. They were wed on June 17, 1956.

Larry enjoyed spending time reading about history, literature and art in both English and Chinese languages. He also loved a good game of chess passing along his strategy books to his grandchildren. He also was a passionate fan of all the Bay Area teams; 49ers, Giants and Warriors. And in recent years, he loved karaoke singing with his family and friends.

Larry considered his major accomplishment in life is having raised and provided for his loving family. Together with his devoted wife May, they have three sons who are also successful in their careers, and seven doting grandchildren.

Larry is survived by his wife, May, his children Jonathan (Rhonda), Nicholas (Valerie), Matthew (Emily); grandchildren Katrina, Ryan, Rexford, Nathaniel, Marina and Sierra; and his brother Petrius.

Larry was predeceased by his parents, his siblings Jack, Merrill and Peter, his half siblings George, Dorothy, Mary, Henry and his grandson Alexander.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests charitable donations can be made to Chinese Hospital Auxiliary, 845 Jackson Street, San Francisco, CA 94133, Chinese for Affirmative Action, 17 Walter U Lum Place, San Francisco, CA 94108, or Cameron House, 920 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94108.

There will be a Celebration of Life event for Larry Jew on a future date, hopefully in 2022 after the pandemic.















JUN WAN JUE
(Japanese Language Division)
August 5, 1925, Kai Gork Village, China – March 6, 2000, San Pablo, California
full name and birth information on draft card

Passenger List
arrived March 15, 1931, San Francisco, California from Hong Kong

1940 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Berkeley, California
Race: Chinese

Student, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, California

World War II Draft Registration
Residence: Berkeley, California
Registration Date: August 6, 1943

World War II Enlistment
Serial Number: 39048608
Residence: Berkeley, California
Enlistment: Mach 15, 1944, Presidio of Monterey, California
Fort Snelling, 1944–1945
Release Date: July 5, 1946
Enlistment Dat: July 6, 1949
Release Date: April 21 1953
I Dream of Genealogy: Jue, Jun W; Military Intelligence Service

Student, 1949, University of California, Berkeley, California


















Council Bluffs Nonpareil
(Iowa)
September 30, 1949
Drives Car All Way from California with 1948 License Plates

Jun Wan Jue, 25, Berkeley, Calif., an engineer, left California with an automobile equipped with 1948 license plates and was not stopped until he got to Council Bluffs. 

Cruiser Patrolman J. G. Olderog and F. A. Kerns stopped the car Thursday night near Sixth street and Broadway. 

“The car had been in storage most of the time and I was driving to Detroit, Mich.,” Jue explained Friday when arraigned before Municipal Judge John P. Tinley on an improper registration charge. He was fined $5.

Police impounded the car while Jue obtained 1949 Iowa license plates before continuing his trip eastward.
1950 U.S. Federal Census
Home: Berkeley, California

California Marriage Index
Spouse: Lillie Toy
Marriage: August 5, 1951, Alameda

Social Security Death Index
Find a Grave


ALLEN DURLIN JUNG
(Japanese Language Division)
August 8, 1909, Oakland, California – September 12, 1982, Los Angeles, California
full name and birth information on draft card

1930 U.S. Federal Census
Home: San Francisco, California
Occupation: Airplane Pilot
Race: Chinese

Arizona County Marriage Record
Name: Allen D. Jung
Spouse: Toshiye Ichioka
Marriage: February 28, 1934, Yuma, Arizona

1937 Los Angeles, California, City Directory
Address: 532 S Coronado
Occupation: Actor

World War II Draft Registration
Residence: Los Angeles, California
Registration Date: October 16, 1940
Employer: County Clerks Department

Life Magazine, November 23, 1942
pages 12–13: Speaking of Pictures…Axis Villains Fill Hollywood’s Rogue Gallery
Allen Jung plays the part of a Japanese pilot in King of the Mounties who temporarily baffles the good guys.

World War II Enlistment
Serial Number: 39716884
Residence: Los Angeles, California
Enlistment: December 4, 1943, Los Angeles, California
Camp Savage, February 1944
Release Date: April 1, 1945

The American Weekly
November 26, 1944
... Allen Jung, a Chinese actor who has played half a dozen Jap movie parts since Pearl Harbor. He says: 

“I read in one magazine of national circulation that I dislike such assignments. This isn’t so. I’m glad of the opportunity to show the American public the inhuman characteristics of China’s enemies. I speak Japanese fluently—and I mastered the lingo at the University of California. I’m still studying the language, not because it helps me to play Nip roles more dramatically but because I hope to be an interpreter in the United States Army.”
Consular Report of Marriage
Spouse Name: Helen Yu-Ling Wong
Marriage: July 25, 1947, Shanghai, China

Korean War Project
1LT [first lieutenant] Allen D Jung—General Order 086-51

Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1995
Chinese Historical Society of America
A Tale of Two Brothers: Jung Oi-Won and Ming S. Jung
Him Mark Lai and Edmund D. Jung

page 35
In Support of the Chinese Revolution

Oi-won and Boo Qui arrived in San Francico on the S.S. Manchuria on January 15, 1909. On August 8 of that year Boo Qui gave birth to their firstborn, a son they named Duck Lun (later he took the English name Allen D. Jung when he attended school in America)….
page 39
In Pursuit of Higher Education
After the success of the revolution, many members of the Tongmenghui hastened to China to participate in the reconstruction of their ancestral country. No sooner had Oi-won returned to Oakland that he also began making plans for departure to China. He left with Boo Qui and young Duck Lun on January 3, 1912, on the S.S. Manchuria.[26]…
page 41
…During this period the family was living away from the San Francisco Chinese community. Although Jang Boo Qui taught her son Chinese so that he was bilingual, undoubtedly the non-Chinese environment exerted a strong influence on young Allen during his formative years and could have also contributed to the development of a generation gap between parents and son.

…On February 23, 1924, he returned to China, leaving from Seattle on the S.S. Empress of Russia; his wife and son had shipped out four days earlier from San Francisco.[30]
page 42
By this time, a rift had developed between Oi-won nd his eldest son Allen. The father was a strict disciplinarian who had high expectations of his offspring. Since both father and son were strong-willed and stubborn, this had led to an increasing number of conflicts between them regarding Allen’s lackadaisical performance in school. Allen strongly opposed his father’s action in starting a new family, and when Joong Lim’s first child was born, Allen left China and returned to America by himself, where he stayed with his Uncle Ming’s family for a short time.
page 60
Notes

Delan (Duck Lun, Allen) son of Jung Oi-won, while reminiscing about part of his boyhood spent in Jee Nai village in the 1920s, recalled that even then it was a fairly prosperous area due to the commerce in rice and sugar. The entire village was surrounded by a continuous wall, and within that wall each clan in turn had its own wall for further protection. These barriers provided a measure of security from roving bandits in the old days. Allen remembered that there were five clans in the village and that the Jung clan was the largest and relatively well off (letter from Allen Jung, Los Angeles, January 22, 1980 to Edmund and Haw Jung, San Francisco).
Americans First
K. Scott Wong
Harvard University Press, 2005
page 159
While sharing officers’ quarters in Shanghai, Young happened to meet a mainland Chinese American, Lieutenant Allen Jung. Jung had spent the last year as part of the “Dixie Mission,” a contingent of American military observers in Yenan with the Chinese Communists. It was nicknamed the “Dixie Mission” because they were in “rebel territory.”[57] Jung, eager to get home now that the war was over, was looking for someone to replace him. He described Yenan as “terrible—no women, no nothing, no liquor, only beer.” Despite these “challenges,” Young offered to take Jung’s place. They went to G2 headquarters and Young was granted permission to go to Yenan. When he arrived, he was informed that the American operation was now to be called the Yenan Observer Group and that he was to be the executive officer under Colonel Ivan D. Yeaton, who was then in charge of the operation.
Internet Movie Database
Allen Jung was born on August 8, 1909 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Party (1968), Murder by Television (1935) and Terry and the Pirates (1940). He died on September 12, 1982 in Los Angeles, California.


















The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers: A Necrology of Actors and Actresses (1999)
page 290: Jung, Allen D. (1932–1971): b. Oakland, CA, 8 Aug 1909; d. Los Angeles County, CA, 12 Sep 1982.

Social Security Death Index


WONG Y. KAN
see “Robert” Kan Wong


 BUN KWOCK
(Japanese Language Division)
Match 15, 1917, Sunning, China – February 4, 1988, San Bernardino, California
birthplace recorded on passenger list and Social Security application











Passenger List
arrived May 8, 1935, San Francisco from Hong Kong

Passenger List
arrived May 30, 1940, San Francisco from Hong Kong
Chinese Exclusion Act Case Number: 40041/010-04

World War II Enlistment
Serial Number: 39262094
Residence: San Bernardino, California
Enlistment: October 23, 1942, Los Angeles, California
Fort Snelling, 1944; graduated May 19, 1945
Release Date: December 14, 1945

1950 California Voter Registration
Name: Benny B Kwock
Street Address: 1010 2nd St., San Bernardino, California
Party Affiliation: Democrat

1950 U.S. Federal Census
Name: Ben Bun Kwock
Home: San Bernardino, California
Occupation: Meat Cutter
Married with three children

Social Security application said in April 1941 name listed as Bun Kwock; in June 1966 name listed as Benny B. Kwock.

San Bernardino Sun
February 9, 1988
Benny Bun Kwock

San Bernardino—Benny Bun Kwock, 70, a 50-year resident of the county, died Feb. 4, 1988, in Loma Linda.

He was born in China on March 15, 1917.

He was retired after being a businessman for 50 years.

He was a veteran of WWII and a member of San Bernardino Lodge 343, F&AM, life member of the Al Malaikah Shrine, a member of York Rite Bodies, San Bernardino Shrine Club, American Legion Post 14, San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce.

Survivors include his wife, (Jin Kwock of San Bernardino; son, Howard B. Kwock of Huntington Beach; daughters, Betty Gong of Riverside, Katherine Mitani of Richmond, Peggy Stein of Chino, Hazel Frisch of Corona and Alice Yuem of Riverside; mother, Gee Kwock of San Bernardino; two brothers; three sisters; 10 grandchildren.

Friends may call at Bobbin Memorial Chapel noon to 4 p.m. today. Masonic service will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at the chapel, with interment at Montecito Memorial Park.

Donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association in the name of Benny Kwock.
Social Security Death Index
Find a Grave


YICK Y. KWOCK
(Japanese Language Division)
1917, China –

Listed in the registry but not the merged registry. There is a Y. Kwock in the merged registry who was MISLS support.

World War II Enlistment

(Updated June 15, 2022)
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