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Jane Also First on OkinawaEnsign Kendeig!©uiefReceptionBy HAZEL HARTZOGU. P. War CorrespondentPEARL HARBOR, April 12 —Pretty Ensign Jane Kendeigh, 23,USNNC, Oberlin, O., is quite adistinctive person. She was thefirst American woman to land on Iwo Jima and now she has addedOkinawa to her list.She stepped from a Navy air transport evacuation plane onto Okinawa six days after the American invasion.“Everything was pretty quiet,” she said, ‘‘although there was firing in the back hills. The tremendous invasion fleet was spread out all over the sea, but there was no firing.”“We landed after about an eight-hour flight from Guam and took time only to unload mail, medicine and supplies, then loaded 20 wounded and took off. There was no air activity.“T h e wounded included 16 stretcher cases. They were all Army except one Marine. They joked and kidded although some of them were in serious condition.”Ens. Kendeigh has been in the Navy 13 months. She took a twoI . - • «'«*** _it:Meaclt;nilmonths training course at Alameda, Cal., and then flew to Guam with 11 other Navy flight nurses. She is en route to California now on the last leg of the evacuation service which brings the wounded from Guam to Pearl Harbor andthen to the United States.During the past month she has totaled more than 100 flight hours. The average is supposed to be not more than 90.Asked how the wounded reacted at the sight of a blue-eyed tiny nurse, she said, “The same as oth-racaNorthrop Plant Votes On Choice of UnionsLOS ANGELES, April 12 il.Pi— Northrop Aircraft, Inc., employes today began balloting to determine which of two unions — if either—shall be their representa-1 a live.In the National Labor Rela-tions Board election the workers j “j may choose between the United Auto Workers (CIO), the International Association of Machinists (AFL), or no union at all.Polls will close at 9 p.m.thpier places—they whistled and kidded me.”“The Okinawa landing wasquiet,” she said, but at Iwo we! had to circle for more than an i hour until an air battle subsided. (Important AnnouncementIntroducing the NewFIDELITY - VICTORY - LOAN - PLAN
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Berkeley Daily Gazette
Berkeley, California, US
Thu, Apr 12, 1945
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