The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers

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Label

The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers

Title remainder

America's first women soldiers

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth Cobbs

Title variation

America's first women soldiers

Title variation remainder

Americas first women soldiers

Creator

• Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth,
• trueCobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth

Author

• Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth,

Subject

• History
• trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War I
• trueHistory writing -- Women's history
• Military participation -- Female
• Regimental histories
• trueSex discrimination against women
• Sex discrimination against women
• Sex discrimination against women -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Telephone operators
• trueTelephone operators
• Telephone operators -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• United States
• United States, Army
• United States, Army -- Women | History
• trueUnited States, Army -- Women | History
• United States, Army | Signal Corps
• trueUnited States, Army | Signal Corps
• United States, Army | Signal Corps -- History -- 20th century
• trueWomen -- Suffrage
• Women -- Suffrage
• Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• trueWomen soldiers
• Women soldiers
• Women soldiers -- Legal status, laws, etc
• Women soldiers -- Legal status, laws, etc -- United States
• Women soldiers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Women veterans
• trueWomen veterans
• Women veterans -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• World War (1914-1918)
• trueWorld War I -- Participation, Female
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Communications
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Female
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- United States
• trueWorld War I -- Communications
• 1900-1999
• Armed Forces -- Women
• Communications, Military
• trueFirst World War era (1914-1918) -- 1914 -- 1918

Genre

• trueHistory writing
• trueHistory

Language

eng

Summary

"In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few were graduates of elite colleges. Most were ordinary, enterprising young women motivated by patriotism and adventure, eager to test their mettle and save the world. The first contingent arrived in France just as the German Army trained "Big Bertha" on Paris, bombarding the frightened city as the new women of the U.S. Army struggled through unlit streets to find their billets. A handful followed General Pershing to the gates of Verdun and the battlefields of Meuse-Argonne. When the switchboard operators sailed home a year later, the Army dismissed them without veterans' benefits or victory medals. The women commenced a sixty-year fight that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. This book shows how technological developments encouraged an unusual band to volunteer for military service at the precise moment that feminists back home championed a federal suffrage amendment. The same desire to participate fully in the life of their country animated both groups, and both struggled after 1920 to reap the rewards of victory. Their experiences illuminate ways in which sex-role change was embraced and resisted throughout the twentieth century, and the ways that men and women struggled together for gender justice."--Provided by publisher

Writing style

• trueScholarly
• trueEngaging

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

MH/DLC

Dewey number

940.4/173082

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

D639.T4

LC item number

C63 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult