Zooming Back to History – Hops, Bullets, and Bulldozers – Salem’s Chinese American Brothers in the Greatest Generation

Twenty thousand Chinese Americans served their country in WWII and were connected to the history of the Chinese in America in ways that they might not have been fully understood. “The All-American Crew” presents two brothers from Salem, Oregon, Loren, and Stan, who enlist in the Army Air Force and go off to the Pacific to fight for their country’s freedom. Their heroic struggles in New Guinea and Saipan offer a personal look at the assimilation of Chinese Americans into fighting crews and units that included young men from every cultural and ethnic background. Drawing on the strength of their diversity, these men fought and died, not as Irish, English, German, or Chinese Americans. Rather they all fought side-by-side as Americans. They fought for each other and for their country. We are their legacy.