Adopted Korean child en route home, 1975

A beaming Kim Yon Jin - now Jenny Jones - is led down a stairway at Tokyo International Airport Tuesday by Pacific Stars and Stripes Hal Drake (left) and Jim Lea. The tiny Korean girl, adopted last year by Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Jones of Norristown, Pa., was en route home after stories of her plight in Stripes led to cutting of red tape by immigration officials to get her to her home in time for Christmas. Escorting Jenny from Seoul to New York is Gunnery Sgt. Mike Rush (in rear with mustache) Stripes' Korea Bureau chief. Also greeting Jenny were two other Stripes staffers, Sgt. William McCallum (behind Drake) and PO 2C. Calvin McGuire.
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