Lt. Aleda E. Lutz was a nurse in Saginaw, Michigan before the war. She is the only woman buried here. A medical center in Saginaw is named after her.

Lutz 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. She helped evacuate over 3,500 wounded soldiers successfully. She was killed in a C47 crash on November 1, 1944.