Ho Weng Toh

Ho Weng Toh (; 1920 – 6 January 2024), also known as Winkie, was a Singaporean World War II bomber pilot for the Chinese-American Composite Wing (Provisional) (sometimes called the "Flying Tigers") and later a pioneer pilot for Singapore Airlines.

Early life Ho was born in a small town in Ipoh, Perak in 1920 to a shoe shop merchant from China. He was the sixth of six children. He had his primary and secondary education in Malaysia but managed to attend university as his uncle was a rich tin miner.

He attended St. Stephen's College in Stanley and Lingnan University in Hong Kong in 1941 whilst the Japanese invaded China. He later escaped with his fellow students from China after enduring the Japanese occupation for a few months by bribing bandits to take them across the border.

He stated that he had also seen the bombing of Kai Tak Airport. Ho left Hong Kong and went to Guangzhou where he saw a poster for air force recruitment. After the war, Ho was stationed in Hankou, Wuhan as an instructor. He later went to Shanghai and became a commercial pilot for Central Air Transport Corporation.

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

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.

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. In 2023, a short film called Flying Tigers based on his life was released and he was portrayed by Richie Koh. .