American flygirl / Susan Tate Ankeny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ankeny, Susan Tate, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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.

Lee, Hazel Ah Ying, 1912-1944.

Lee, Hazel Ah Ying.

Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)--Biography.

Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First trade paperback edition.

Other Title:

American fly girl

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., 2026.

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 and index.

Other Format:

Online version

ISBN:

9780806542836

0806542837

OCLC:

1391214840

Publisher Number:

90104338058