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Hazel Ying Lee, born in Portland, Oregon, earned her pilot’s license at the age of 19. She went to China in 1933 to become a pilot for the Chinese Air Force but was rejected because of her sex. Returning to the United States, Lee later joined the…

Suiko Kumagai, a Nisei, or second generation Japanese American, committed her life to serving her nation. Kumagai refused to marry, saying she “married Uncle Sam.” She became a student nurse shortly before the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on…

Following the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government, because of a perceived national security risk, rounded up 120,000 American citizens of Japanese descent and sent them to Mid-West and West Coast internment camps.…