2024-01-07 01:36 Central News Agency, Taipei, 7th
During the Anti-Japanese War, veteran Flying Tigers hero He Yongdao, who flew B-25 bombers to bomb Japanese targets in North China and carried out 18 bombing missions, believed that “joining the Air Force of the Republic of China was a turning point in his life and the most important life-changing decision” on the 6th Passed away at the age of 103.
In his later years, Ho Wing Tao lived in Singapore with his family. When he was 100 years old, he gave an exclusive interview to the Central News Agency and recounted this indelible memory of his life.
When interviewed before his death, Ho Yongdao said that although he was an overseas Chinese from Nanyang, he did not flee to the United States or Australia like others to find another way out. Instead, he joined the ranks of saving the country, determined to serve the Air Force, defend the airspace, fulfill his wish to serve the country, and at the same time protect himself. family.
Ho Wing-tao was born 103 years ago in the small town of Ipoh in Malaya (Malaysia) where Chinese people gather. Due to the Japanese invasion of China in World War II, Ho Wing-tao, who was studying at the University of Hong Kong at the time, became a son and daughter of the great era by chance, starting a thrilling life. A page to serve the country.
At the end of 1941, the situation in Hong Kong was turbulent and Japan occupied Hong Kong. Ho Wing-tao witnessed the Japanese bombing of Kai Tak Airport and other tragic events. Not only was his opportunity to study interrupted, he also lost contact with his family in Ipoh. When he went through all kinds of hardships to escape from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, he saw the Nationalist Government’s poster for air force recruitment, and decided to join the army to fight against Japan, vowing to drive the invaders out of China and his hometown in Nanyang.
Ho Yongdao applied for the 16th batch of the Air Force Officer School in 1942. In 1943, he traveled to the Lahe River in India to complete primary flight training, and had to avoid Japanese artillery fire along the way. In 1944, he went to the Phoenix Flight School in the United States to receive intensive training. On April 25, he returned to the battlefield and joined the First Squadron of the Sino-American Mixed Aviation Group, flying B-25 bombers into the War of Resistance.
He Yongdao was stationed in Hanzhong at the time and had to perform missions in Shijiazhuang, Xuzhou, Taiyuan and other places. During the flight, he had to fly in close formations and dodge ground fire from all directions. All Flying Tigers pilots went all out and had high morale. Hope to save the country bravely.
March 21, 2020 was the 100th birthday of Robert Ho. The then representative of the Taipei Representative Office in Singapore, Liang Guoxin, also congratulated him on his birthday with his family and friends, witnessed his heroic deeds in the joint operations of the Chinese and US Air Forces, and commended the former Chinese The patriotic sentiments of the seniors of the First Bomber Team of the Chinese American Composite Wing (CACW) who worked hard and fought bravely.
After the news of his death was revealed, Singapore’s State Counselor and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean and others expressed their condolences through the social media platform Facebook last night.
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