Aleda Lutz, Flight Nurse
Dublin Core
Title
Aleda Lutz, Flight Nurse
Subject
US Flight Nurses of World War II
Description
This is a photograph of Lt. Aleda E. Lutz, a flight nurse, tending to a patient on board a C-47 in North Africa in 1943. Lutz was a member of the 802nd Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, and was killed in a plane crash in France in 1944. The stakes were high for soldiers as well as nurses on the front lines. Lutz was one of 16 other flight nurses killed during the war.
Creator
US Air Force (photographer unknown)
Source
National Museum of the Air Force: "Winged Angels: USAAF Flight Nurses in WWII, 1st Lt. Aleda E. Lutz." Gallery, Air Force Medical Service Website, Photo 2 of 10, Accessed April 14, 2020. https://www.airforcemedicine.af.mil/News/Art/igphoto/2000489409/.
Publisher
National Museum of the Air Force
United States Air Force
United States Air Force
Date
Published March 13, 2014
Accessed April 14, 2020
Accessed April 14, 2020
Rights
Public Domain
Relation
Sarah Sundin Author Website: "Medical Air Evacuation in World War II," (blog), October 29, 2018: https://www.sarahsundin.com/medical-air-evacuation-in-world-war-ii/
Format
Photograph (jpg)
Language
English
Type
Still Image
Identifier
US Air Force Flight Nurses of World War II, Aleda Lutz
Coverage
Air Force in World War II, flight nurses of World War II, World War II medical evacuation, Lt. Aleda Lutz
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
black and white photograph
Collection
Citation
US Air Force (photographer unknown), “Aleda Lutz, Flight Nurse,” US Nurses in World War II, accessed April 29, 2024, https://usnursesww2.omeka.net/items/show/16.