The "carioca" (citizen born in Rio de Janeiro) major Elza Cansação Medeiros went to war in 1943, when she had 22 years old. "It not bad idea if we would have a nuclear weapon. Nobody dare to stop India and China because they have one." This comments just can be posted by a military. In the case, a military of skirts; the first brazilian volunteer in WW2, that exhibits 35 medals and wrote their third book, "I was there", in portuguese, english, and italian, with 700 pictures of the conflit. Between the 67 womens who had participated of the war, Major Elza is the only that continues in activity. She was secretary of ex-president dictator João Baptista Figueiredo, her relative. She does not have shame of support iron-fist policy of old military regime."Im totally anti-comunist", said her. In her book, she write funny and sad stories of war as the death of the love her life in the battle fields. He was an american lieutenant, Robert Bishop. "Bob died on explosion in May 2 of 1945, in the last days of war on Europe", she remembered sad. "We were fiancés.", said.

major Elza Cansação Medeiros, veteran of FEB

Comemoration in France

Bologna, Italy