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Arthur Chin
Major Arthur Chin was an American pilot and a Second Sino-Japanese War fighter ace.
Chin was born in Portland, Oregon to a Chinese father of Cantonese origin and a caucasian mother of Peruvian background. Motivated by the Japanese invasion of China, Chin enrolled in flight school in 1932. Along with 15 other Chinese Americans, he left for China and joined the Guangdong Provincial Air Force as the first and original group of American volunteer combat aviators. After training in Munich Germany, he destroyed nine enemy aircraft from 1937-1939. In 1939, while flying a Gloster Gladiator, the fighter in which he ...
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