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Re: Family Members
My paternal grandfather served in the (Nationalist) Chinese Army Air Corps as a ground engineer, and served in Shanghai in 1937 during the Japanese invasion. My grandmother lost at least one son during the chaotic refugees fleeing from the city during Japanese bombings, and she picked up a lost girl cowering in the street corner and she later became my aunt. My grandfather later served in Burma maintaining supply routes, possibly the Burma Road. After the war, he fought the Communists in Manchuria, then fled to Taiwan with his immediate family with the government after China fell.
My maternal grandfather was a servant for a Japanese official or businessman in Taiwan. He performed menial tasks, but was treated well. He was given a Japanese education and later became a civil engineer for the Chinese government in Taiwan and designed dams in central Taiwan.
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