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Louie Yim-qun

Republic of China Air Force pilot

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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"Clifford" Louie Yim-qun, also known as Louie Yen-chung, was a Chinese-American pilot and military officer in the Republic of China. Louie's father was from Taishan county, Guangdong, China, but Louie was born in Seattle, Washington. He obtained a private pilot's license at the Portland Flying School, Oregon, and went to China in 1933. One of the other pilots in Portland was Hazel Ying Lee, who later became his wife. She was the first Chinese American to volunteer for the Women Airforce Service Pilots. Louie died in 1999 in Taipei, Taiwan.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Louie Yim-qun” as republic of China Air Force pilot. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Louie, Yim-qun and Republic can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Louie Yim-qun” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.