Hazel Ying Lee Collection.

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Hazel Ying Lee Collection.

1930

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Includes oral histories with various WASP regarding their memories of Hazel Ying Lee. Also includes copies of written materials, such as her logbook and other records, used as research materials in the making of "A Brief Flight," a one-hour documentary film on the life of Hazel Ying Lee, the first Chinese American woman to fly for the military.

.75 cubic feet.

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Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6811498

Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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Lee, Hazel Ah Ying, 1912-1944

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Hazel Ying Lee (1912-1944) was the first Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military. Born in Portland, Oregon, Lee’s unquenchable thirst for flight began at age 19, when she first rode in a friend’s plane at an airshow. Within a year, she became one of the first Chinese American women to earn a pilot’s license, despite prevailing sexist and anti-Chinese norms. When Japan invaded China in 1933, Lee moved to China to join the Chinese Air Force but was rejected as a female pilot and forced...

Tong, Frances M.

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Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)

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