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In October 1933, Miss Lee began her flying career in the Crontran-Ecole d'Aviation. in Geneva. The private license, which she merited upon the completion of her course at L'Ecole in 1934, was also the first ever granted to a woman student.
Following her advanced training in the United States, Miss Lee upon her return to China in 1936, received a public license from the Chinese Government. During the first six months of that year, she flew from Shanghai to Chengtu, from Peiping to Kawngchowwan, near French Indo-China, in other words, over the whole of China, a tour of some 30,000 miles.
While the war raged in Shanghai, Miss Lee assisted in the nursing of wounded soldiers and civilians. She also devoted a great deal of eimt during the past twenty months, to the preparation of a book on air travel and the history of aviation in China.
This outstanding Chinese aviatrix arrived in the United States aboard the China Clipper, which on October 20, 1938, settled to rest on the same waves which had received her without a plane, some three years earlier in San Francisco Bay.
The tour planned by Miss Lee will begin on March 30th, when she will take off from Floyd Bennett Airport in New Jersey. Her schedule will include, at first, stops in Philadelphia on March 20th. Washington, D.C. March 21st. Boston, Mass. March 26th. Miami, Fla. April 2nd. New Orleans, La. April 8th. Oklahoma City April 12th. El Paso, Texas, April 14th. San Diego, April 16th, and Los Angeles. Calif. April 19th.