Retired pilot and war veteran Ho Weng Toh, 99, at the launch of his memoir. Photo: Handout Retired pilot and war veteran Ho Weng Toh, 99, at the launch of his memoir. Photo: Handout
Retired pilot and war veteran Ho Weng Toh, 99, at the launch of his memoir. Photo: Handout
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Singapore pilot, 99, remembers wartime Hong Kong and being a Flying Tiger

  • Ho Weng Toh, one of the last surviving members of the First American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, has published a memoir
  • He got to know tycoon Robert Kuok at Malaysia-Singapore Airlines in the 1960s and the latter remembers the ex-pilot as ‘Uncle Ho’

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Dewey Sim
Dewey Sim

Updated: 11:25am, 9 Dec, 2019

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Retired pilot and war veteran Ho Weng Toh, 99, at the launch of his memoir. Photo: Handout Retired pilot and war veteran Ho Weng Toh, 99, at the launch of his memoir. Photo: Handout
Retired pilot and war veteran Ho Weng Toh, 99, at the launch of his memoir. Photo: Handout
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