Chinese-Americans get officer rank. Camp Barkeley, Texas, The first Chinese-Americans to be commissioned second lieutenants in the Medical Administrative Corps Officer Candidate School have received their bars at this Army center. The men are Calvin S. Chin, 28, of New York City, and Anthony Loo Wung Wong, 25 of Honolulu, Hawaii. Lieutenants Chin and Wong are now members of the Medical Department Officer's Replacement Pool at Camp Barkeley. Lieutenant Chin, native New Yorker, is the son of Me On Chin 35 Pell Street. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York and was in the restaurant business before entering the Army. Serving first as an enlisted man, Chin next became Staff Sergeant assigned to a Medical Battalion at Camp Youn, California. Lieutenant Wong came from Hawaii to the United States for part of his education, and graduated from St. Louis College, Missouri, in 1934. Returning to Honolulu, he graduated from the Cannon School of Business and went to work for the Hawaiian Electric Company. Before entering the Officer Candidate School, Wong served in the Hawaiian National Guard
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 18.
Large WWII photograph collection made with aid of image recognition.
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Date
01/01/1940
Location
camp barkeley
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain