Stanley Gee

Portrait of Stanley Gee

STANLEY HUNG GEE (1920-2011)

US Army Air Force

Private

 

Place of Birth: China

Service: An eighteen-year-old Stanley landed on Angel Island in 1938 from Hong Kong to escape poverty. He worked as a houseboy and at the Richmond shipyard. He enlisted after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and served in the 42nd Airdrome Squadron of the US Air Force. 

Post-War: Stanley used the GI Bill to attend University of California at Berkeley and worked at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory as a mechanical design draftsman. Together with his wife Amy, Stanley opened the successful Bazaar Canton, an import goods store in San Francisco Chinatown.