Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon

Note: This photograph, of an Asian man in a uniform that does not resemble any that have been worn by the US Navy or any other branch of the American military, is NOT RADM Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon. Gordon Paiʻea Chung-Hoon, (Honolulu, Hawaii, July 25, 1910 – July 24, 1979) was an admiral in the United States Navy, who served during World War II, and the first Asian American flag officer. His father, William Chung-Hoon Jr., a Chinese-English-Hawaiian, was a county treasurer and his mother Agnes Punana, a Hawaiian, was a member of the Kaahumanu Society. He graduated from Punahou School in 1929.

Date

1910

Photographer / author

military photographer

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

520 × 703 pixels

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