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Chinese American Female Pioneers

Hazel Ying Lee helped the airforce during WW2 through their WASP program and became the first Asian American woman in the Airforce. When doing her job, a midwestern farmer thought he Japanese had invaded - but she had the balls to set him right!

I’m going to propose an Asians prefer the establishment and deny conspiracies perspective as to why  we’ve never heard of her.

Her death was due to an airforce dispatcher error who gave the same directions to land to her as another of her colleague. 

Imagine this scenario in a movie.  Ominous music. You feel that bitter taste in your mouth and want to cringe as a grave injustice is about to happen. A general (or maybe petty officer) who received the command from above to issue this deadly command masked as an error, because someone wanted her dead. Of course, they knew their system, and this would just be accounted for as an error and not a murder...

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