Margaret Gee served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) as one of only two Chinese Americans to serve in World War II. Gee originally started out as a draftsman and a welder to save up money to learn how to fly. She looked up to Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh and saw them as her inspiration to aviation. She received only 50 hours of flight experience before applying to WASP. There were more than 25,000 pilots applying to WASP at that time and she was fortunate enough to be one of the 1,074 pilots who were chosen. There she received the same training that was given to the men in the airforce and she used her experience to train men for combat. Gee mainly flew planes for gunnery training and was able to copilot a B17. She retired from service in 1944 and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.