Kam Fong

Kam Fong was employed as boilermaker at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941. He reported to work just after the attack and stayed there for three days. "I stood over the belly-up minelayer USS Ogalala, the only ship with a Hawaiian captain, and cried. I looked across the bay and saw the battleship USS Arizona burning and I cried," said Fong. He lived in Kalihi during WW II. On 8 June 1944, his first wife and two children were killed when two B-24 Liberators collided and the burning wreckage fell onto the homes of his neighborhood.

His first family died in 1944, after a B-24 bomber crashed onto his home.

Was a Honolulu police officer from 1946-1962, when he retired and went into business as a real estate agent.

Campaigned as a candidate for the 1989 election as Hawaii governor.