Aleda E. Lutz

Who is Aleda E. Lutz?

Aleda E. Lutz was an American Army flight nurse.

Serving in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II, she participated in six separate battle campaigns over a 20-month period, accompanied air combat missions, and conducted all-weather medical evacuations in Tunisia, Italy and France.

On November 1, 1944, she was fatally injured in a Medevac C-47 crash near Saint-Chamond, Loire, France. At the time of her death, Lutz was perhaps the most experienced flight nurse in the U.S. military service. She had the most evacuation sorties, most combat hours flown by any flight nurse and the most patients transported by any flight nurse.