| 词条 | Kenneth Jernstedt |
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| name = Kenneth A. Jernstedt | image name= | imagesize= 200px | caption = | state_senate = Oregon | district = 18th and 28th | term_start = 1969 | term_end = 1988 | predecessor = Ben Musa | successor = Wayne Fawbush | constituency = Gilliam, Hood River, Morrow, Sherman, Wasco, and Wheeler counties (18th District); Gilliam, Hood River, Jefferson, Sherman, Wasco, Wheeler, and Deschutes counties (28th District) | state_house2 = Oregon | district2 = 22nd | term_start2 = 1967 | term_end2 = 1968 | predecessor2 = Katherine Musa | successor2 = William H.Dielschneider | constituency2= Hood River and Wasco counties | party = Republican | birth_date = {{birth date|1917|7|20|mf=y}} | birth_place= Yamhill County, Oregon | death_date = {{death date and age|2013|2|5|1917|7|20|mf=y}} | death_place= Hood River, Oregon | spouse = Laura Elliot; Genevieve Weder Carl | profession = Businessman | religion = | footnotes = }}Kenneth Allen Jernstedt (July 20, 1917 – February 5, 2013) was an American Flying Tigers fighter pilot, a test pilot, a politician and a businessman.[1][2] Early lifeJernstedt was born in Yamhill County, Oregon, to Fred and Mae Jernstedt, and grew up on a farm in Carlton.[3] He graduated from Yamhill High School in 1935 and from Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, in January 1939.[1] Flying careerAfter graduation, he enlisted in the United States Marine Air Corps.[4] He earned his pilot wings in 1941[1] at Pensacola, Florida, and was assigned to Quantico.[4] In 1941, Jernstedt was recruited to join the Flying Tigers to fight the Japanese in China, resigning his Marine Corps commission (with the secret approval of the US government).[5] He became a flight leader of the 3rd Squadron, flying the Curtiss P-40.[1] On one mission, he and fellow flight leader William Reed strafed two airfields and were credited with destroying 15 enemy aircraft on the ground; they split the bonus of $7500 ($500 per aircraft).[4] In his Flying Tigers career, Jernstedt was credited with an additional three victories, for a total of 10.5.[5] In a 1999 interview, he stated the figure should have been 12.5, but two could not be confirmed.[4] Because he was ill, he received permission to leave the Flying Tigers several weeks before the unit was disbanded in early July 1942 (after the United States had entered the war).[4] Returning to the United States, he joined Republic Aviation as a civilian test pilot.[3] Among the aircraft he flew was the P-47 Thunderbolt.[5] Post-warAfter the war ended, he moved to Hood River, Oregon, in 1946. He bought the Hood River Bottling Works, a soft drink bottler, and ran it for 25 years.[3] He also entered politics, serving first as mayor of Hood River from 1959 to 1960.[5] He was then elected to the Oregon State Legislature for one term in 1966 and the first of five terms in the Oregon State Senate in 1968.[1] Following his last term as senator, he was again elected mayor of Hood River, from 1989 to 1990.[5] He married college sweetheart Laura Elliott in 1942; they had a son and three daughters. After her death in 1960, he married Genevieve Weder Carl in 1962, adopting her son and two daughters. Gen was a politician as well, and supported her husband's work, serving as his legislative aide.[3] Ken Jernstedt died on February 5, 2013, at the age of 95.[3] HonorsThe main entrance gate to the Portland Air National Guard Base was named the Jernstedt Gate in 1981.[3] In 1996, Jernstedt and the other surviving Flying Tigers pilots were belatedly awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.[1][2][3] Hood River's public airfield was renamed Ken Jernstedt Airfield on September 6, 2001.[5] He was one of the nine inaugural inductees in the Oregon Aviation Hall of Fame in 2003.[3] Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs public affairs officer Mike Allegre, who grew up with Jernstedt's children, wrote of him in the state-published book 150 Years of Oregon Veterans.[2] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web |url=https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2013scr0013.pdf |title=Senate Concurrent Resolution 13 |publisher=Oregon State Legislature |date=May 24, 2013 |accessdate=June 24, 2014}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite news |url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonatwar/2013/02/ace_pilot_father_ex-mayor_and.html |title=Ace pilot, father, ex-mayor and legislator Kenneth A. Jernstedt dies at 95 |author=Mike Francis |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=February 5, 2013 |accessdate=June 21, 2014}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite news |title=Ace Ken Jernstedt dies at 95 |author=Kirby Neumann-Rea |newspaper=Hood River News |date=February 5, 2013 |url=http://www.hoodrivernews.com/news/2013/feb/05/ace-ken-jernstedt-dies-95/}} 4. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web |url=http://www.usshawkbill.com/tigers/ken.htm |title=Ken Jernstedt Interview 1/16/99 |publisher=usshawkbill.com |accessdate=June 21, 2014}} 5. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite book|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 107th Congress, First Session Vol. 147 Part 12|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jSQBTUWzzxQC&pg=PA16606 |publisher=Government Printing Office|page=16606 |accessdate=June 21, 2014}} "Tribute to Kenneth Jernstedt / Hon. Greg Walden of Oregon in the House of Representatives / Thursday, September 6, 2001" External links
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