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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — On this Memorial Day and as we end Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we wanted to introduce you to an inspiring woman named Hazel Ying Lee. She is the first ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — If her radiant smile didn't give it away, her skills in the cockpit of a plane probably did. Hazel Ying Lee loved to fly. She was the first Chinese-American woman to fly for the U.S.

What happened to the pilot in a rural Texas field during World War II just might sum up her historic path, which began in a small apartment in Portland’s Chinatown and led to the sky. On this day, ...

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 ...