Betty Haas Pfister photograph album, 1943-1944.

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Betty Haas Pfister photograph album, 1943-1944.

Candid photographs of Pfister and other WASP trainees of class 43-W-5 while in training at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Tex. Includes rare photographs of Hazel Ying Lee. Also includes photographs of New Castle Army Air Base, Delaware, where Pfister was first stationed.

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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...

Pfister, Betty Haas.

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Served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of World War II, 1943-44. From the description of Betty Haas Pfister photograph album, 1943-1944. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 47250923 ...

Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.)

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W.A.S.P. (Musical group)

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New Castle Army Air Base (Del.)

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