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Updated on May 11, 2021 at 7:50 am Hazel Ying Lee was one of the first Chinese American women to fly for the U.S. military. Hazel Ying Lee, one of the first Chinese American women to fly for the military after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was forced one day to make an emergency landing in a field in Texas when the engine of her training aircraft died. She got out to see a farmer coming at her with a pitchfork, she told her fellow pilots that night on line in the mess hall at Avenger Field in Sweetwater. He believed she was Japanese, recalled one of those pilots, Virginia Luttrell Krahn, in a 1997 oral history archived at Texas Women’s University’s Women’s Collection. “And Hazel said, No, I am an American. I am an American, Krahn recounted. The farmer didn t believe her. ....
Two daring Chinese American women took to Portland’s skies to escape earthbound 20th-century limits, secured lasting legacies Updated 8:05 AM; Today 7:04 AM Hazel Ying Lee (second from right) was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. (National Museum of the United States Air Force) Facebook Share Two of Portland’s airborne pioneers, however, mostly flew under the radar. Leah Hing began taking flying lessons in 1932 when she was 24. By then, the Washington High School grad already had crisscrossed the United States by train as a saxophonist with a six-member band variously called Portland Chinese Girls’ Band, Chinese Show Boat and Honorable Wu’s Vaudeville Troupe. She had started the band as a means of getting out of Portland and seeing the wider world. The band’s signature number was “Happy Days Are Here Again.” ....