Sergeant Apau En Pau Kau and Sergeant George Bung Quon Tom

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Sergeant Apau En Pau Kau (Gao Enbao ) and Sergeant George Bung Quon Tom (Tan Bingan) were two “doughboys” from Hawaii of Chinese descent.
Kau joined the army on April 6, 1917, and died on the front lines in Argonne, France, six days before the war ended on November 11, 1918—Armistice Day, now Veteran’s Day.
Tom was with the 6th Engineers of the Expeditionary Forces. He died of pneumonia in a French camp, a month before Armistice Day.
The Kau Tom Post 11 of the American Legion was named after them.


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Jill Byus Radke has written about Hawaii's historic places for over 25 years. Before becoming the President of Apuakea Communications, she was the Public Affairs Manager at Aulani, A Disney Resort, the Director of Communications at Bishop Museum, and the Director of Development at Historic Hawaii Foundation. She's also held leadership roles at Kaiser Permanente, Macmillan Publishing, and the USS Missouri Memorial Association. She graduated from Harvard University with a Masters in Business Management, from Indiana University with a Bachelors in Journalism, and she did her graduate studies in historic preservation at the University of Hawaii.

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