Elza Medeiros
(1921-2009)
Brazilian Army officer
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Elza Cansanção Medeiros, popularly known as Major Elza (October 21, 1921 – December 8, 2009), 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, having deployed to Italy during the war along with the Brazilian Expeditionary Force as a nurse. Medeiros used to lecture about the Brazilian participation in World War II.
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21 October 1921 Rio de Janeiro, Federal District, Brazil
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| Died |
8 December 2009 (aged 88) Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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| Zodiac | Libra |
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