{"id":1607,"date":"2015-11-23T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/?page_id=1607"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:06:24","slug":"gwong-yat-chang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/veteran-stories\/air-force\/gwong-yat-chang\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwong Yat Chang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gwong Yat Chang served as a pilot\u00a0in the RCAF during WWII. \u00a0His two brothers Chee Yat Chang and Gan Chang also served in the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>After the war, he ended up joining the US Air Force. Unfortunately, he did not disclose to his family any information about the missions he was involved with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chang-GwongYat-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chang-GwongYat-portrait-373x500.jpg\" alt=\"Chang GwongYat-portrait\" width=\"373\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chang-GwongYat-portrait-373x500.jpg 373w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chang-GwongYat-portrait-149x200.jpg 149w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chang-GwongYat-portrait.jpg 1681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2981\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gwong-Yat-Chang-1949-standing-334x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gwong-Yat-Chang-1949-standing-334x500.jpg 334w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gwong-Yat-Chang-1949-standing-134x200.jpg 134w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gwong-Yat-Chang-1949-standing-768x1150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gwong-Yat-Chang-1949-standing.jpg 1502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwong Yat Chang served as a pilot\u00a0in the RCAF during WWII. \u00a0His two brothers Chee Yat Chang and Gan Chang also served in the Air Force. After the war, he ended up joining the US Air Force. Unfortunately, he did not disclose to his family any information about the missions he was involved with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1614,"parent":378,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-nosidebar.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1607","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1607\/revisions\/2982"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}