Chinese-Canadian veterans fought in secret WWII unit and helped changed laws
VANCOUVER — Giant monkeys in the jungle are what Ronald Lee remembers most about his Second World War “adventure” in Burma as part of a dangerous and secret British-led operation.
“They’d come and steal your food!” he says laughing. “We had to shoot them for meat, for food.”
At 98, the dapper Vancouver-born resident with a gleaming smile says little about the hardships his unit of eight commandos faced far from their home on Canada’s West Coast.
Greg Lee fills in parts of the story he heard as a teenager, the ones his father now chooses to bury.