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Kurt Chew-Een Lee : ウィキペディア英語版 | Kurt Chew-Een Lee
Major Kurt Chew-Een Lee ( (January 21, 1926 – March 3, 2014) was the first U.S. Marine Corps officer of Chinese descent. Lee earned the Navy Cross under fire in Korea in September 1950, serving in the 1st Battalion 7th Marines. Lee and his younger brothers Chew-Fan Lee and Chew-Mon Lee all earned bravery medals in the Korean War. ==Early life== Chew-Een Lee was born in 1926 in San Francisco and grew up in Sacramento, California. Lee's father was M. Young Lee, born in Guangzhou (Canton), emigrating in the 1920s to the Territory of Hawaii and then California. Once established in America, M. Young Lee returned to China to honor an arranged marriage.〔Drury, 2009, p. 254〕 He brought his bride to California and worked as a distributor of farm produce to hotels and restaurants. Lee's brother Chew-Fan Lee was born in 1927 in Sacramento. In 1928, a third son was born to the family: Chew-Mon Lee.〔 The Lee family included three daughters: Faustina, Betty and Juliet.
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