{"id":2809,"date":"2020-03-30T11:49:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T18:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/?page_id=2809"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:45:47","slug":"victor-j-y-louie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/veteran-stories\/army\/victor-j-y-louie\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor J.Y. Louie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Joy Ying (Loy) Louie, born September 6, 1916 in Victoria, B.C, was one of the rare Chinese Canadians who\u00a0fought the Japanese long before the Second World War broke out.<\/p>\n

On September 18, 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria and set up a puppet state which they called\u00a0Manchukuo. It would be the first of several aggressive moves\u00a0by the Japanese Imperial Army to consolidate their power over their larger but poorer neighbour.<\/p>\n

Louie joined\u00a0a band of guerrillas trying to sabotage\u00a0the occupiers. We don’t know if he was already living in China at the time (it was not uncommon for Chinese in Canada to send their children back to the “mother country” for a few years), or if he had left Canada to join the guerrilla movement.<\/p>\n

He was still in China when the Second Sino-Japanese conflict broke out in July of 1937. This\u00a0escalation in the conflict led Louie to return to\u00a0Canada in 1938. But\u00a0the scenes of occupation and devastation were forever etched into his memory.<\/p>\n

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As soon as he could, Louie\u00a0enlisted in the Canadian Army and was finally accepted in 1944 when British Intelligence came looking for Chinese Canadian men who could form their Force 136.<\/p>\n

Force 136<\/a> was a clandestine group trained in guerrilla warfare tactics. These men would be assigned to operations behind enemy lines. Their aim was to assist resistance\u00a0groups with training, sabotage and espionage. They would learn more than basic soldiering skills: they would learn how to survive in small teams in the jungle with no outside contact or support.<\/p>\n

With Louie’s\u00a0experience from China under his belt, combined with\u00a0his\u00a0ability to speak fluent Cantonese, he was quickly assigned to a mission. Operation “Humour Orange” involved dropping Force 136 men into\u00a0Japanese-occupied area near Kuala Pila and having them contact and support the key resistance group, The Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (M.P.A.J.A.).<\/p>\n

Victory Louie passed away March 16, 2006.<\/p>\n

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Victor Louie (standing) and Harry Ho pose for the camera. Circa 1945.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Joy Ying (Loy) Louie, born September 6, 1916 in Victoria, B.C, was one of the rare Chinese Canadians who\u00a0fought the Japanese long before the Second World War broke out. On September 18, 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria and set up a puppet state which they called\u00a0Manchukuo. It would be the first of several aggressive moves\u00a0by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3540,"parent":594,"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-2809","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\/2809","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=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3542,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2809\/revisions\/3542"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}