Gertrude Reid

1st Lieutenant, U.S. Air Force
1952-1954
I never really thought of myself as a “war hero”—just as a nurse taking care of the heroes coming back from Korea while I was stationed at Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska. I was 4,400 miles from home, but I knew it was where I was needed. What they needed was to get well and get back to their families.