{"id":489,"date":"2011-10-16T01:10:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccmm.sodadesign.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:16:14","slug":"thomas-kwok-wong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/veteran-stories\/air-force\/thomas-kwok-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Kwok Hung Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"489\" class=\"elementor elementor-489\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38bc5b74 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"38bc5b74\" 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-396716e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"396716e9\" 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><em>one of the first in the air force<\/em><\/p><p>Thomas Kwok Hung Wong (R.172154) was\u00a0one of the first Chinese Canadians to be accepted into the RCAF. He made his first attempt to join the airforce in 1939, but was told to wait. He was only accepted once the Japanese had bombed Pear Harbor in Hawaii.<\/p><div id=\"attachment_2625\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2625\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2625\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wong-Thomas-RCAF-450x316.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Wong (R) and friend. \" width=\"450\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wong-Thomas-RCAF-450x316.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wong-Thomas-RCAF-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wong-Thomas-RCAF-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wong-Thomas-RCAF.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Wong (R) and friend.<\/p><\/div><p>Was motivated by adventure, the love of flying and the desire to seek equal rights for Chinese Canadians.<\/p><p>Read his story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond-news.com\/news\/weekly-feature\/remembering-the-day-when-his-face-didn-t-fit-1.2627939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richmond News<\/a> (November 2016).<\/p><div id=\"attachment_1419\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1419\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1419\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wong-Tom-portrait-1940s-395x500.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Wong\" width=\"395\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Wong<\/p><\/div><p>Hear Thomas&#8217; story as told to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thememoryproject.com\/stories\/1955:thomas-kwok-hung-tommy-wong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Memory Project<\/a>.<\/p><p>Listen to this <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/239182938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 interview<\/a> with Thomas, recorded a few months before he turned 100 years old.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xBY6VnSydWo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview with Tom Boy Digital Production<\/a><\/p>\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>served as a warrant officer in the air force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1419,"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-489","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\/489","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6114,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions\/6114"}],"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\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}