Force 136: Chinese Canadian Heroes
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- In 1944, approx. 150 Chinese Canadians were recruited and dropped behind Japanese enemy lines. We meet the surviving soldiers to hear how they fought for our country even while they were denied the full rights of Canadian citizens.
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Thats my grandad in one of those photos, still goin at 94 today
Nathan Wong I’m sorry but is your grandad Bing Wong? I met him last year he is such a here!
my grandpa is in there too!!
God bless him and we thank him for his service.🇨🇦
I hope he's well 🇦🇺
Amazing. Your Grandad's are Canadian heroes! 🇨🇦 I would love to shake his hand and hear his stories.
great work. Thank you Catherine Clement and Henry Yu. And many thanks to Telus for sponsoring this production. Lest we forget.
Thank you to all those who served in Force 136. For your treatment, I am ashamed and for your service, I am grateful.
To my grandpa, Ronald Lee. May you rest in peace. Thank you for everything you've done. I love you.
Never knew…until after he died! Chinese vets attended my dad’s memorial…but I did not know the connection.
Thank you dad!!!
This story deserves to make it into a movie
Thank you vets! Your sacrifice allowed future generations to prosper! A proud Chinese Canadian!
First, we have to be CANADIANS and not treated as 2nd-class, or worse, same a dogs, and that what these Chinese vets do.
They never got the benefits the white vets did.
robertson lee I
such an amazing story.
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This is a vivid reminder of the price that was paid for the freedom we enjoy today. To think that these soldiers put everything on the line just for a chance that their children will have a better life is just amazing -- amazing how they can look at the sheer hopelessness of BOTH facing their enemy in the hell of war and the oppression back home by their own government, and KNOW that things will be better if they just keep pushing forward-- this is an ideal that all people should live up to. I don't know any of these brave men but I would not have the life I have without their sacrifices. To the soldiers of Force 136 thank you for your service.
Proud to be Canadian and God Bless Canada. Thanks the brave Canadian soldiers fought the war in Hong Kong 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Chun Ying Leung ??? what a name
Thank you chinese Canadians and honourable veterans for building this country
every school kid in canada should watch this. Charles Lee makes me cry when he describes how he killed with his knife. Thankful i got to meet Tommy Wong ... he was a cool dude ...
I thank my Great Uncle Louie and all these men for their service and the battles they fought abroad and in Canada.
Thank you for your service.
hello to all veterans.. force 136 monument now in 🇲🇾 located in pahang, i hope there will be build every state.. les we forget
glad to hear my heros of ww2.. salam from 🇲🇾
Thank you so much for sharing this important part of history
Bro tears just keep on flowing
My mother's adopted uncle Bob was an RAAF pilot seconded by the RAF to fly in China prior to Pearl Harbour
He died in the 1950s before I was born and the only other thing I know about him is a German woman had tried to poison him while he was in China
Thank you Catherine for sharing this very important video. I received the benefits from all their efforts. Lest We Forget!🇨🇦😇🙏👀🙈🍁
During the 2nd world war my father was a British doctor seconded into Force 136. His name is Bruce Donaldson. He is still with us. Does anyone know him?
Should never forget our heroes 🙏
my uncle ron, RIP thank you for all you have done for us, and for teaching my uncoordinated ass to golf :P you will be missed...
Thank you so much Chinese Canadian 🙇♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️🙏🙏🙏
much love and respect from spain.
Please share this story. People need to know
solute to my cousins and friends from the old village.
I appologize on behalf of Canada for the racism you faced. The generations of today understand. Thank you for a freer world. Canada is beyond proud of you. You can enjoy your glory today.
Andrew Webb-trezzi no need to apologize..it’s history..there were plenty of good people too who were trying to evolve and change things...if it wasn’t for those things, we wouldn’t be where we are. (Sincerely a Chinese Canadian:).. we still a way to go but the system isn’t racist anymore..individuals are..but I am kinda shocked even America was better at allowing Asians into the army I’m kinda shocked but it’s it what it is back then
Dude u should make a video on info- Canadian and British raj soliders who fought for Canada and alongside Canadian forces
Now I know. They did die for Canada.
fascinating story.
Honor and Respect
Brave Men.
love the chinese people.... from spain.
Canadains we are proud of .
french force 136 in laos fighted against Japanese occupants, greats soldiers all
True Canadian Heroes
I had the pleasure of attending the screening of this on Remembrance Day with the 4 veterans in the film, (l-r) Tommy CG WONG, Neill CHAN [#errata: at 07:10 Neill's surname was spelled as 'CHANN' and his correct, official Given name is 'Neill'], Ronald LEE & Charles LEE, as well as Director-Producer Melinda FRIEDMAN & Catherine Clement.
The classical Chinese room in the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver 大溫哥華中華文化中心 where the screening took place was packed with many standees. There was Q & A afterwards.
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At 06:15 Catherine used "Chinese Canadian" then corrected herself and used the correct "Chinese in Canada". One could could have said "Chinese aliens in Canada"
Bravo.
I posted this on my FaceBook, WhatsApp and WeChat. Hopefully, we can share this "hidden history" of Canada with all Canadians, no, the Chinese diaspora, especially the newer-comers to Canada who don't even know of the existence of the "Railway-Soldier Monument in Vancouver's Chinatown" 溫哥華唐人街華工華兵紀念碑
www.flickr.com/groups/2678743@N20/
Chinese in Canada were even at the Battle of Vimy Ridge !
Pvt. Frederick Lee is one of them !
czcams.com/video/Br82jbp5a9k/video.html
www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1570441
The walkway leading up to the Hill 70 Memorial will be named in his honour
www.fredleehill70.ca/
We know.
I personally know the people, one of them is Elsie Leung - she was in the piece you attached - who discovered Fred Lee's name on the cenotaph and after much research confirmed that he is ethnic Chinese.
With a name like LEE, he could be non-CHN, like General LEE of USA Civil war fame.
we too lose a hero mr lim bo seng from force 136
I did not know about this
Heros!
Very insightful and heartbreaking. Respect and love to all who fight racism and white supremacy.
CANADIAN Heroes!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
7:42 i like how he said thicc
What was the music used in the ending?
Dear Mr.Neill chan i have wrote a letter to you from my class
Wow
So Sorry it has taken so long for this story to be told. Canada has come a long way since it was thought that Whiteness made us superior.
Yes it has. Bless you.
Yep and now one of us gets accused of cutting someone’s hijab... feels like the old times again...
My poor free china
Always makes me disgusted hearing about the history of my city.
Why? Thinks progress.. it is what it is.. it was also those same people that had their hearts changed because they realized they were wrong.. you can’t judge people of the past with our ideaologies now.. and because of these events.. the world has gotten so good we took it for granted.
12:45 white guy in the back looks like Ryan Reynolds
i would put my pillow on my face... AND CRY lmao
👀
douglas jung first elected chinese canadian mp ,, voted in as a conservative as most first time peoples/cultures were which is barely talked about or admitted by the woke left
Ya.. a lot of this stuff was beaten by people that proved they were canadian. They weren’t victims.. just liek the blacks, etc.. everyone earned the respect and racism was being defeated because peoples minds were changing.. abuse peple saw these were not victims, hard working people who would die for canada..
Thats how things progressed.. not whining and wanting to segregate everyone.