Wing's father, a career reserve Army officer, was reactivated for service prior to World War II and was captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942. He survived the Bataan Death March and was later rescued in the Raid at Cabanatuan by U.S. Army Rangers and Filipino guerillas, a story told in "The Great Raid" (2005). Paul Wing died in May 1957, in a veteran's hospital in Portsmith, VA, following a coronary.