"Obituary: Lillian Keil, flight nurse, tended to 10,000 wounded soldiers".
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When she was the subject of a 1961 episode of the TV show This is Your Life, the show drew one of its ten highest mail responses. The couple settled in Covina, California, where she continued to work as a nurse. After only six weeks, they married, and when she became pregnant in 1955, she received an honorable discharge. In 1954, she met Walter Keil, a former Navy intelligence officer during World War II. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. She served as a technical advisor for the 1953 film Flight Nurse, starring Joan Leslie and Forrest Tucker, which was partly based upon her own experiences. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedias articles about people. It is estimated that she tended over 10,000 wounded in her military career. In all, she flew 175 air evacuations out of Korea, to go with her 250 in World War II, for a total of 425. She was one of only 30 Air Force nurses stationed in the Far East. Īfter the war, she returned to being a United Airlines stewardess, but reenlisted when the Korean War broke out, this time in the United States Air Force. She arranged to have her brother's remains repatriated after the war and he was interred at Golden Gate National Cemetery in September 1949. Kinkella served with the Army 184th Infantry Division in the South Pacific and was killed in action on February 4, 1944, at Kwajlein Atoll, in the Marshall Islands. Patton's Third Army as it drove across France. She was among the nurses who tended the wounded of George S. Captain Keil served in London by the summer of 1943 and at Omaha Beach after the June 1944 D-Day invasion. She was among the first flight nurse graduates of the Army School of Air Evacuation at Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky. After the United States entered World War II in 1941, a passenger suggested she become a flight nurse for the United States Army Air Forces. In 1939, she became one of the first stewardesses for United Airlines. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco and became a registered nurse. Immediately following high school, Keil attended the nursing program at St. Watching the nuns tend to the sick is what drew her into nursing. She was raised in a convent after her father abandoned her mother and their three small children.
Tan Son Nhut Air Base, June 1967 Īirman 1st Class Lourdes Martinez, 2nd Civil Engineering Squadron firefighter, operates a chainsaw at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.Keil was born in Arcata, California. Air Force female African American to fly U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Plane įirst five enlisted Women in the Air Force (WAF) to arrive in Vietnam along with fourth WAF officer: From bottom: Lt Col June H.
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Air Force īessie Coleman: First Native American and African American woman to earn a pilot license Ĭolonel Merryl Tengesdal: First U.S. General Janet Carol Wolfebarger: First woman to achieve rank of four-star general in the U.S. Lieutenant Willa Beatrice Brown: First African American woman to earn a pilot license Senior Airman Danielle Smith: 2nd Health Care Operations Squadron from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.Īn Airman from the 2nd Munitions Squadron assembles munition for the Air Force Global Strike Challenge at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana Nelson: First African American female Air Force Thunderbirds’ officer
Staff Sergeant Esther McGowan Blake: First woman to enlist in U.S. Bass: First female and first person of Asian American descent to become Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Melvina Smith: Command Chief of Air Force Global Strike Command Ĭaptain Lillian Kinkela Keil: Flight Nurse and one of the most highly decorated women in American military history Ĭhief Master Sgt. Air Force graphic by Senior Airman Shelby Thurman)Ĭhief Master Sgt. Year round, we value, honor and respect all women but the month of March is especially dedicated recognizing all the women of the past and present who contribute to our Air Force and Global Strike missions.
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