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We were fired upon and often had to land in slush, which was dangerous because the planes could skid. "Sometimes I gave my outer clothing to the shivering GIs that came aboard. Their hands and feet were so frostbitten, they could hardly hold a gun or walk. In 1991, Kinkella told the New York Times about the wounded evacuated from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir: "The Marines had spent many, many days in the snow. She was assigned to the 801st Medical Air Evacuation Transportation Squadron (nicknamed the Angels of Mercy) during that time. During the next 16 months, she flew 175 air evacuations out of Korea, logging 1,400 hours of flight time. But her civilian career was interrupted again in 1950 when she returned to her duties as an Air Force flight nurse and flew to Korea. She was an airborne Florence Nightingale." Lillian's older brother, who served in the Navy, was killed during World War II.Īfter World War II ended, Keil returned to United Airlines as an Assistant Chief Stewardess. Retired Air Force Colonel Barney Oldfield, a longtime friend of Kinkella's, told the New York Times in 1991: "She had to make it up as she went along. Lillian made 250 evacuation flights, 23 of them transatlantic, during WWII, moving from one man to another, stanching the flow of blood, bandaging wounds, giving medicine and comfort. She also was part of a team that followed General George Patton's Army across France with cargos of crucial supplies, including gasoline, ammunition and weapons. D-Day had come and she was heading for Normandy to collect the wounded, whom she treated enroute to hospitals in safety zones. While there, she witnessed the first buzz bomb attack on London, and in June 1944 climbed aboard a C-47. Army Air Forces.īy the summer of 1943, she was in England pulling wounded and frostbitten crewmen out of B-17s returning from bombing raids over Europe. Within two weeks, she was accepted into the U.S. You belong in the Air Force as a flight nurse." When she got home from that flight, she wrote to the School of Evacuation at Bowman Fields, CA. On a flight to Santa Barbara, a passenger sitting in the rear of the plane said, "What are you doing on this plane? You're a registered nurse, and we have a war going on. Kinkella became one of the first stewardesses hired by United and was happily tending to her passengers when the U.S. Kinkella, a registered nurse, had never seen an airplane and never heard of a stewardess, but one look and she was hooked. Kinkella's mother thought her daughter might like to be one of a brand new group of women, called "stewardesses," so she advised her to go to United Airline's Oakland base and take a look. As she watched the nuns take care of the sick, she was drawn to nursing. She was raised in a convent after her father left her mother with three children under the age of 5. If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.Ĭheers.Lillian Kinkella was born on 17 November 1917 in Arcata, CA.If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.This message is updated dynamically through the template (last update: 18 January 2022). Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals.
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