Elsie Seetoo

Portrait of Elise Seetoo

ELSIE CHIN YUEN SEETOO (b. 1918)

US Army Nurse Corps

First Lieutenant

 

Place of Birth: Stockton, California

Service: Elsie lost her US citizenship because she was training at a Red Cross medi-cal unit that was technically a part of the Chinese army. She had to take an oath of allegiance to regain her citizenship. Elsie served the remaining of her war years in the US Army Nurse Corps, where she was a member of the Air Service Command.

Post-War: Elsie graduated in 1948 with a BS in nursing from the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). She did freelance work for a translation agency and was a technical publications writer for the Naval Medical Center.