WASP WWII
Died in the Service of Her Country
Her brother was Victor Lee
She was born in Portland, Oregon.
She was a graduate of Commerce High School, Portland, OR.
She entered flight training on 21 February 1943 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, TX and graduated on 07 August 1943.
She was a ferry pilot and was stationed at Romulus Army Air Base in MIchigan.
She was the first Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military, Hazel Ying Lee died in 1944 while delivering a fighter plane to Great Falls, Montana. Lee and other female pilots ferried over 5,000 of these planes from the Bell plant in New York State to Great Falls, where they went on to Alaska and then to the allied USSR.
While ferrying a P-63, she was killed in a mid-air collision on final approach at Great Falls Army Air Field, MT.
She was one of only thirty-eight WWII WASPs killed while in the service of their country.
Lee's brother, Victor, also buried at River View, died shortly after her while serving in France. Their family prevailed upon River View, at the time a segregated cemetery, to allow their children to be buried in the spot they had chosen.
∼LOUIE – Nov. 23, Mrs. Y. C. (Hazel Lee), formerly of Portland; wife of Major Yin Cheung Louie of Chinese air corps; sister of Harry, Victor, Howard, David, Ben, Mrs. Bowen Hann and Mrs. Walter Chung, Mrs. Herbert Tong, Miss Ngan Lee. Friends invited to attend funeral services Friday, 11:30 A.M., in the Drawing Room Chapel of Holman & Lutz Colonial Mortuary, NE 14th and Sandy. Vault Interment Riverview.
[The Oregonian, 30 Nov 1944, p15]∼WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS (WASP) CLASS 43-4. SERVED WITH THE 3RD FERRYING GROUP OUT OF ROMULUS, MICHIGAN. DIED NOVEMBER 23, 1943 IN GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, WHEN THE P-63 SHE WAS FERRYING COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER PLANE ON A LANDING APPROACH
Died in the Service of Her Country
Her brother was Victor Lee
She was born in Portland, Oregon.
She was a graduate of Commerce High School, Portland, OR.
She entered flight training on 21 February 1943 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, TX and graduated on 07 August 1943.
She was a ferry pilot and was stationed at Romulus Army Air Base in MIchigan.
She was the first Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military, Hazel Ying Lee died in 1944 while delivering a fighter plane to Great Falls, Montana. Lee and other female pilots ferried over 5,000 of these planes from the Bell plant in New York State to Great Falls, where they went on to Alaska and then to the allied USSR.
While ferrying a P-63, she was killed in a mid-air collision on final approach at Great Falls Army Air Field, MT.
She was one of only thirty-eight WWII WASPs killed while in the service of their country.
Lee's brother, Victor, also buried at River View, died shortly after her while serving in France. Their family prevailed upon River View, at the time a segregated cemetery, to allow their children to be buried in the spot they had chosen.
∼LOUIE – Nov. 23, Mrs. Y. C. (Hazel Lee), formerly of Portland; wife of Major Yin Cheung Louie of Chinese air corps; sister of Harry, Victor, Howard, David, Ben, Mrs. Bowen Hann and Mrs. Walter Chung, Mrs. Herbert Tong, Miss Ngan Lee. Friends invited to attend funeral services Friday, 11:30 A.M., in the Drawing Room Chapel of Holman & Lutz Colonial Mortuary, NE 14th and Sandy. Vault Interment Riverview.
[The Oregonian, 30 Nov 1944, p15]∼WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS (WASP) CLASS 43-4. SERVED WITH THE 3RD FERRYING GROUP OUT OF ROMULUS, MICHIGAN. DIED NOVEMBER 23, 1943 IN GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, WHEN THE P-63 SHE WAS FERRYING COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER PLANE ON A LANDING APPROACH
WASP WWII
Died in the Service of Her Country
Her brother was Victor Lee
She was born in Portland, Oregon.
She was a graduate of Commerce High School, Portland, OR.
She entered flight training on 21 February 1943 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, TX and graduated on 07 August 1943.
She was a ferry pilot and was stationed at Romulus Army Air Base in MIchigan.
She was the first Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military, Hazel Ying Lee died in 1944 while delivering a fighter plane to Great Falls, Montana. Lee and other female pilots ferried over 5,000 of these planes from the Bell plant in New York State to Great Falls, where they went on to Alaska and then to the allied USSR.
While ferrying a P-63, she was killed in a mid-air collision on final approach at Great Falls Army Air Field, MT.
She was one of only thirty-eight WWII WASPs killed while in the service of their country.
Lee's brother, Victor, also buried at River View, died shortly after her while serving in France. Their family prevailed upon River View, at the time a segregated cemetery, to allow their children to be buried in the spot they had chosen.
∼LOUIE – Nov. 23, Mrs. Y. C. (Hazel Lee), formerly of Portland; wife of Major Yin Cheung Louie of Chinese air corps; sister of Harry, Victor, Howard, David, Ben, Mrs. Bowen Hann and Mrs. Walter Chung, Mrs. Herbert Tong, Miss Ngan Lee. Friends invited to attend funeral services Friday, 11:30 A.M., in the Drawing Room Chapel of Holman & Lutz Colonial Mortuary, NE 14th and Sandy. Vault Interment Riverview.
[The Oregonian, 30 Nov 1944, p15]∼WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS (WASP) CLASS 43-4. SERVED WITH THE 3RD FERRYING GROUP OUT OF ROMULUS, MICHIGAN. DIED NOVEMBER 23, 1943 IN GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, WHEN THE P-63 SHE WAS FERRYING COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER PLANE ON A LANDING APPROACH
Died in the Service of Her Country
Her brother was Victor Lee
She was born in Portland, Oregon.
She was a graduate of Commerce High School, Portland, OR.
She entered flight training on 21 February 1943 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, TX and graduated on 07 August 1943.
She was a ferry pilot and was stationed at Romulus Army Air Base in MIchigan.
She was the first Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military, Hazel Ying Lee died in 1944 while delivering a fighter plane to Great Falls, Montana. Lee and other female pilots ferried over 5,000 of these planes from the Bell plant in New York State to Great Falls, where they went on to Alaska and then to the allied USSR.
While ferrying a P-63, she was killed in a mid-air collision on final approach at Great Falls Army Air Field, MT.
She was one of only thirty-eight WWII WASPs killed while in the service of their country.
Lee's brother, Victor, also buried at River View, died shortly after her while serving in France. Their family prevailed upon River View, at the time a segregated cemetery, to allow their children to be buried in the spot they had chosen.
∼LOUIE – Nov. 23, Mrs. Y. C. (Hazel Lee), formerly of Portland; wife of Major Yin Cheung Louie of Chinese air corps; sister of Harry, Victor, Howard, David, Ben, Mrs. Bowen Hann and Mrs. Walter Chung, Mrs. Herbert Tong, Miss Ngan Lee. Friends invited to attend funeral services Friday, 11:30 A.M., in the Drawing Room Chapel of Holman & Lutz Colonial Mortuary, NE 14th and Sandy. Vault Interment Riverview.
[The Oregonian, 30 Nov 1944, p15]∼WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS (WASP) CLASS 43-4. SERVED WITH THE 3RD FERRYING GROUP OUT OF ROMULUS, MICHIGAN. DIED NOVEMBER 23, 1943 IN GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, WHEN THE P-63 SHE WAS FERRYING COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER PLANE ON A LANDING APPROACH
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