Elza Medeiros
Military Person
1921 – 2009
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Who was Elza Medeiros?
Elza Cansanção Medeiros or Major Elza was a Brazilian Army officer and World War II veteran. She was the highest-ranking female officer in the Brazilian Army with the rank of Major. She went to Italy during the war along with the Brazilian Expeditionary Force as a nurse.
She used to lecture about the Brazilian participation in World War II.
Elza Cansanção Medeiros died on December 8, 2009, in Rio de Janeiro.
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