#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo - VAntage Point

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is U.S. Army Veteran Elsie Chin Yuen Seetoo, who served during World War II from 1944 to 1946.
In October 1938, she started nursing training at Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong. After the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, Seetoo joined the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps in Guiyang; she spent eight months there before leaving to serve in India. She returned to China in 1943 and was stationed in Kunming in China’s southern Yunnan Province where she continued her medical training.

In 1944, Seetoo joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and was commissioned as a first lieutenant. She was first assigned to the 14th Air Force as a member of the Air Service Command. She was then assigned to the 95th Station Hospital Kunming and Chengdu. In 1945, she was stationed with the 172nd General Hospital in Shanghai and continued serving there until the end of World War II. She returned to the United States in February 1946 and was discharged from the Army.