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The Asian American Women Who Fought to Make Their Mark in WWII They worked as pilots, translators, guerrilla fighters and more. Author: They worked as pilots, translators, guerrilla fighters and more. Asian American women played a critical part in America’s war effort during World War II. Coming from diverse backgrounds including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Filipino they served in important roles ranging from pilots and translators to factory workers and guerrilla fighters. Yet they worked on behalf of a country that was far from welcoming. From the time of their arrival in the mid 19th century, people of Asian descent were denied basic citizenship and voting rights for at least a century. For Japanese American women hoping to contribute to the war effort, the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor ratcheted up barriers even further, as entire Japanese communities faced intense discrimination and incarceration in isolated prison camps. “For many, the impetus to s ....
By Raymond Douglas Chong, AsAmNews Staff Writer During Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, AsAmNews proudly pays tribute to these five trailblazers. They have enriched American history by their lofty endeavors. They have blazed the trail for future generations to succeed in our America. From left to right: Yosh “Bill” Watanabe, Dalip Singh Saund, Susan Ahn Cuddy (pictured with her brothers), Tram Nguyen and CC Yin. CC Yin: Longtime Chinese American Civic Leader and Entrepreneur CC Yin, a Chinese American, was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, in 1937. He and his family fled to Taiwan after Communists took over China from the Nationalists in 1949. He arrived at America in 1964. With $100 in his pocket and little English, Yin followed a career as a civil engineer. In 1984, he brought a failing McDonald’s restaurant in Oakland and successfully made a profit. Now Yin operates a fast-food empire with 30 McDonald’s restaurants in Northern Cal ....
The grandson of a Korean independence activist withdrew his offer to donate family historical archives to Harvardâs Schlesinger Library in anger over the Universityâs failure to respond to a professorâs controversial paper on the issue of âcomfort women.â Philip âFlipâ Ahn Cuddy â grandson of Korean independence activist Ahn Chang-ho, known by his pen name Dosan â wrote in a letter to University President Lawrence S. Bacow Wednesday morning that he was withdrawing the submission of family historical materials to Harvard âin direct consequence ofâ Japanese Legal Studies professor J. Mark Ramseyerâs controversial paper about comfort women, which is slated to be published in the International Review of Law and Economics. ....