Hazel’s WASP portrait

(US Air Force)

Hazel posing with a plane

(US Air Force)

Hazel and two WASP peers

(US Air Force)

Hazel meeting with an instructor

(US Air Force)

Karen:

Trailblazing pilot Hazel Ying Lee

Episode sources:

1. “Hazel Ying Lee” (PBS Oregon) 2025

2. “Her name means ‘hero’: How Portland Portland pilot Hazel Ying Lee fought for America – only to be forgotten” by Emily Hamilton (Oregon Public Broadcasting) 2025

3. “Chinese American WASP Losing her Anonymity” by Gillian Flaccus (AP/LA Times) 2003

4. “Hazel Ying Lee” (National Park Service)

5. “Hazel Ying Lee” (EBSCO) 2024

6. “Hazel Ying Lee” (National Women’s History Museum)

7. “Hazel Ying Lee” by Heather Burmeister (Oregon Encyclopedia)

8. “WASP: Women Airforce Service Pilots” (The National WWII Museum) 2025

9. “WASP Uniforms” (Army Air Corps Museum)

10. “WASP awarded Congressional Gold Medal for service” (US Air Force) 2009

Georgia:

The Dunbar Armored Depot Heist

Episode sources:

1. “History’s Greatest Heists”

2. “2 Convicted in 18.9-Million Cash Robbery” by David Rosenzweig (The LA Times) 2001

3. “Leader of Heist is Given 24 Years” by Josh Meyer (The LA Times) 2001

4. “Lawyer, Ex-Paralegal Indicted in Laundering of Money from Holdup” by David Rosenzweig (The LA Times) 2000

5. “Masked Men Rob Depot of $1 Million” by Joe Mozingo (The LA Times) 1997

Dunbar trucks

(Kristoffer Tripplaar / Alamy)

An advertisement for the cash reward in the LA Times, December 1997

(LA Times / newspapers.com)

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