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  • Lillian Keil, decorated flight nurse in two wars, dead at 88

    07/02/2005 9:38:56 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 401+ views
    COVINA, Calif. (AP) - Lillian Keil, a decorated flight nurse who helped evacuate thousands of wounded U.S. troops from the battlefields of World War II and the Korean War, has died. She was 88. Keil died of cancer Thursday at a convalescent home in Covina, said her daughter, Lillianne Wittman. Keil flew on more than 425 missions during the wars, rescuing men who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, on the beaches of Normandy, and in the Inchon invasion. She loaded troops onto C-47s and other transporter planes, then treated them en route to hospitals in safety zones. "They...