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.

Oregon's Hazel Ying Lee was the first Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military. Oregon’s Hazel Ying Lee broke barriers as the first ever Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military.

CAMAS — Perhaps the limitless possibilities of America inspired her Chinese-immigrant mother to include Ying, meaning “hero,” in Hazel Ying Lee’s name. Or perhaps it was the certainty that her child ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A roughly $87 million, 206-unit affordable housing project opened in Southeast Portland on Tuesday on the site of a former strip club. Hazel Ying Lee Apartments, located at 3000 ...

OperaDelaware, America’s 11th oldest opera company with over 75 years of artistic legacy in the First State, is honored to present the world premiere of "Fearless'' – a bold new opera that tells the ...

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 ...

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, ...