WWII · Battle Death Record
Aleda Lutz
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army · Michigan
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Aleda Lutz
- Entered the Service From
- Michigan
- Rank
- First Lieutenant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- 802nd Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, Army Nurse Corps
- War
- WWII
- Date of Death
- November 1, 1944
- Awards
- Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
- Burial / Memorial
- Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial, Draguignan, France
Their story
First Lieutenant Aleda E. Lutz was an Army flight nurse with the 802nd Medical Air Evacuation Squadron who flew 196 missions and helped evacuate over 3,500 wounded soldiers across North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France. She was killed on November 1, 1944, when her medical evacuation C-47 crashed near Saint-Chamond, France, while transporting wounded soldiers from Lyon to Italy. She became the first U.S. military woman to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (posthumous) and is the only woman buried at Rhone American Cemetery.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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