He stated that he had also seen the bombing of Kai Tak Airport.[4] Ho left Hong Kong and went to Guangzhou where he saw a poster for air force recruitment.[4] He then became a trainee pilot for the Chinese-American Composite Wing (Provisional) in 1942 and trained with other pilots in Arizona.[2]
After the fall of Shanghai, he and Augusta left and went to Singapore in 1951, where he joined Malayan Airlines and later became a pilot for Singapore Airlines after Malayan Airlines split. He worked at Singapore Airlines for 30 years[5] and retired in 1980 as a chief pilot of Singapore Airlines' Boeing 737 fleet.[7]
Personal life
Ho had been living in Singapore since 1953 till his death in 2024. Ho met Portuguese Augusta Rodrigues during his stint in Shanghai and they got married on 5 May 1949.[6]
Their son was born in Guangzhou and daughter in Hong Kong. They later all got Singaporean citizenship.[6] His wife died in 1977 of lung cancer.[8]
In 2019, he released a book titled Memoirs of a Flying Tiger: The Story of a WWII Veteran and SIA Pioneer Pilot from the advice of George Yeo.[9] In 2023, a short film called Flying Tigers based on his life was released and he was portrayed by Richie Koh.[7]
