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CountRumfordFRS t1_j9ry6kr wrote

Due to a control tower error she was killed in an air crash in 1944. Her brother was killed a couple of days later in combat in France.

Her family had to fight to have her and her brother buried in a cemetery in Portland Oregon, because of restrictions on where Asians could be interred.

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the_greatest_auk t1_j9ruk24 wrote

They're jodhpur, riding pants that keep things from getting hung up on your feet while letting you move easily at the hips. They were popular with early pilots who were often calvary men and became a fashion and were useful in early open cockpit planes.

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