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George Yee (left) and and Ben Leong (right) work the line on the Curtiss Helldiver bomber wing line in a Hudson Motor Car Company plant in Detroit. Both were businessmen (Yee owned a laundry and Leong owned a restaurant) who volunteered to work on the Helldiver line in response to Japanese atrocities in China. They later recruited 135 other Chinese workers to the plant- one-third of all "employable" Chinese living in Detroit at that time.