Elza Medeiros
Brazilian Army officer
Died when: 88 years 48 days (1057 months)Star Sign: Scorpio

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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