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[Fook Sam Fong photograph album of World War II military training at Williams Field, Arizona].
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[Fook Sam Fong photograph album of World War II military training at Williams Field, Arizona]Creator/Contributor:
Fong, Fook Sam, creator, creator.Abstract:
Snapshot photograph album compiled by Chinese American pilot Fook Sam Fong of the U.S. Army Air Forces, while training at
Williams Field, Arizona during the second world war. Photographs chiefly depict Fong and his fellow cadets, many of them also
likely Chinese Americans, during off-duty leisure activities on base or sightseeing at various locations in Arizona. Also
includes a series of commercial views of the Grand Canyon and other Arizona points of interest. Includes a few photographs
that may have been taken during the war in an unidentified location in Asia, and a newspaper clipping referring to a wartime
injury of Fook's brother Chew F. Fong sustained in Belgium; to another brother, Henry R. Fong; and stating that Fook was serving
in the Signal Corps along the Ledo Road in Asia.
Date:
1942 (issued)Subject:
n-us-azWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Asian Americans -- Photographs
Chinese Americans -- Arizona -- Photographs
Armed Forces -- Chinese Americans
Asian Americans
Chinese Americans
United States -- Armed Forces -- Chinese Americans
Williams Field (Ariz.) -- Photographs
Arizona -- Photographs
Arizona
United States
United States. -- Army Air Forces -- Photographs
United States. -- Army Air Forces.
Fong, Fook Sam -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Compiled by Fook Sam Fong.
Album cover ornately decorated, with hand-lettered text: "Fook Sam Fong, Service Album, Williams Field, Arizona".
Annotation in pencil, inside back cover: "Fook Sam Fong, 19141490, Chinese Det., Marana AAF Pilot Sch. (Basic), Tucson, Ariz."
On both front cover and inside back cover is, likely, Fook Sam Fong's name written in Chinese.
Purchase from William Reese ; 2022.
Per his U.S. World War II draft card, Fook Sam Fong was born in Los Banos, Calif. on June 12, 1922; was employed at Marinship
in Sausalito; and resided in San Francisco at the time of his military registration on June 30, 1942.
[Fook Sam Fong photograph album of World War II military training at Williams Field, Arizona], BANC PIC 2022.120, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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graphicPhotographs.
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 150 photographs in 1 album : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; prints various sizes, album 18 x 28 cm
Language:
English