{"id":2113,"date":"2016-04-11T11:13:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/?page_id=2113"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:19:43","slug":"harry-ho","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/veteran-stories\/army\/harry-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2113\" class=\"elementor elementor-2113\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13fbe29d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"13fbe29d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e4c0d5b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e4c0d5b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Harry Ho was a member of the elite and mostly secretive Force 136, which operated under the direction of Britain&#8217;s Special Operations Executive.\u00a0Force 136 members were trained in guerrilla warfare and jungle survival. Some men specialized in demolition, whereas others were trained to be interpreters or wireless operators.<\/p><p>Assigned to South East Asia, the\u00a0missions varied, but generally the goal was to be be\u00a0parachuted behind Japanese\u00a0lines; seek out and train local resistance fighters; and then help harass and\u00a0sabotage Japanese equipment and supply lines.<\/p><p>Ho enlisted in September 1944 and jumped in on July 14, 1945.\u00a0In a 1996 interview with <em>Legion Magazine<\/em>, Ho described what happened.<\/p><p>\u201cWe flew in a B-24 Liberator at about 600 feet. We were shot at by a Japanese corvette. Shrapnel hit the window and I was hit on the forehead. We kept going to the DZ in the jungle along the border between Thailand and Malaya. We dropped in a dry river bed. My captain got hung up on a tree 60 feet high. It took us 10 hours before we could get him down. While he hung up there he drank two flasks of rum.<\/p><p>We trained Chinese guerrillas to prepare for the invasion of Malaya that was supposed to take place in September 1945\u00a0&#8230;We came across the Japanese quite a few times on patrol, but we avoided them. We were chased several times and that\u2019s when I got my back burned by battery acid as the battery pack jostled on my back\u2026.I stayed there until the Japanese surrendered. When you\u2019re behind the lines, you can\u2019t come out.\u201d<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><div id=\"attachment_1683\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1683\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/HarryHo-VictorLouie-MeerutIndia-1946-450x459.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Ho (L) and Victor Louie take a break for the camera in India.\" width=\"450\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/HarryHo-VictorLouie-MeerutIndia-1946-450x459.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/HarryHo-VictorLouie-MeerutIndia-1946-196x200.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Ho (L) and Victor Louie take a break for the camera in India.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Ho was a member of the elite and mostly secretive Force 136, which operated under the direction of Britain&#8217;s Special Operations Executive.\u00a0Force 136 members were trained in guerrilla warfare and jungle survival. 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