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American flygirl / Susan Tate Ankeny.
Van Pelt Library TL540.L442 A55 2024
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ankeny, Susan Tate, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lee, Hazel Ah Ying, 1912-1944.
- Lee, Hazel Ah Ying.
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)--Biography.
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.).
- Women air pilots--Chinese Americans--Biography.
- Women air pilots.
- Women air pilots--United States--Biography.
- Air pilots--United States--Biography.
- Air pilots.
- Chinese American women--Biography.
- Chinese American women.
- Chinese Americans--Biography.
- Chinese Americans.
- World War, 1939-1945--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Chinese Americans.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- American fly girl
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2024]
- Summary:
- In 1932, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend's flight lesson. It changed her life. In less than a year, a girl with a wicked sense of humor, a newfound love of flying, and a tough can-do attitude earned her pilot's license and headed for China to help against invading Japanese forces. In time, Hazel would become the first Asian American to fly with the Women Airforce Service Pilots. As thrilling as it may have been, it wasn't easy. In America, Hazel felt the oppression and discrimination of the Chinese Exclusion Act. In China's field of male-dominated aviation she was dismissed for being a woman, and for being an American. But in service to her country, Hazel refused to be limited by gender, race, and impossible dreams. Frustrated but undeterred she forged ahead, married Clifford Louie, a devoted and unconventional husband who cheered his wife on, and gave her all for the cause achieving more in her short remarkable life than even she imagined possible. American Flygirl is the untold account of a spirited fighter and an indomitable hidden figure in American history. She broke every common belief about women. She challenged every social restriction to endure and to succeed. And against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Hazel Ying Lee reached for the skies and made her mark as a universal and unsung hero whose time has come. -- Front flap of book jacket.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Little hero
- Chinese not permitted
- The invisible girl
- Elevator girl masters flying
- Fearless fatalists
- The flying Joan d'Arc in China
- Refugees
- A heroine in Chinatown
- Opportunity
- Engineers, housewives, and rockettes
- Prostitutes or lesbians
- Racing the boys
- Cochran's convent
- Scandal
- 'Are you China gal or Japanese gal?'
- Celebrities
- Picnics in the sky
- CAVU
- Unnecessary ad undesirable
- 400 miles per hour
- SNAFU
- Legacy
- Acknowledgments
- Endnotes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version
- ISBN:
- 9780806542829
- 0806542829
- OCLC:
- 1391214840
- Publisher Number:
- 90104338058
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