Lillian Kinkella Keil

[1][2] She was among the first flight nurse graduates of the Army School of Air Evacuation at Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky.

[2] Captain Keil served in London by the summer of 1943 and at Omaha Beach after the June 1944 D-Day invasion.

[1][2] Her older brother, SSGT John J. 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.

She arranged to have her brother's remains repatriated after the war and he was interred at Golden Gate National Cemetery in September 1949.

[1][2] 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.