Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 2007 editon
The Chinese Canadian Military Museum

The Jung Brothers

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In this family photograph taken in Victoria, B.C. are the three Jung brothers. From left to right, Douglas, Arthur and Ross.

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Doug volunteered for Operation Oblivion. After the war, he became a lawyer and was the first Chinese Canadian Member of Parliament representing Vancouver Centre in 1957.

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A federal government building in Vancouver was named after Douglas Jung September 7, 2007.

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Arthur enlisted in the RCAF in 1942. He became an above average pilot and was posted to England. He flew 30 sorties over enemy territory. He was honourably discharged in 1945. In 1947, he flew as a commercial pilot and was killed in a flying accident near Edmonton, Alberta.

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Capt. Ross Jung enlisted July 23, 1942 in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. He had graduated from the University of Toronto in 1937. He went to England in 1943 and served in North Africa later that year. After the war, Major Ross Jung joined the US Army Medical Corps in Shanghai. He was on detached assignment with the Central Intelligence Agency as a physician in classified duties. Released to the CIA in 1953, Ross served overseas with the agency until 1959. He practiced in Washington, DC until his death in 1976.

---------from The Dragon and the Maple Leaf


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