Elza Medeiros
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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