"Agent 50: The Heroic Spy Who Saved Hundreds" Topic

… From Japanese Clutches in WWII

"William "Bill" Gun Chong, BEM, (1911 – 2006) had himself quite an adventure during World War II. A Chinese-Canadian born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was visiting relatives in Hong Kong in 1941, when all hell broke loose and the Japanese invaded and swiftly conquered the British enclave. After scary run-ins with the occupiers, Bill managed to escape. He then volunteered to serve with the British Army Aid Group, a paramilitary organization that operated in southern China as a unit of British Directorate of Military Intelligence Section MI9.

Bill was given the codename "Agent 50" ("five-oh"), and inserted into Japanese occupied China to gather intelligence, help shepherd POW escapees to freedom, and deliver desperately needed medical supplies. He spent the years from 1942 to 1945 travelling behind enemy lines, doing his best to avoid the unwelcome attentions of both Japanese patrols and Chinese outlaws. He was captured on three separate occasions, but he proved himself a slippery customer, and managed to escape and resume his clandestine work each time…"

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Armand

A fascinating and most interesting war time service story of a very brave Chinese-Canadian.
Thanks for posting this Tango.

Amazing man – most unusually, he didn't respond to white racial prejudice by reflecting prejudice back.

Thanks

Armand