The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers

by Elizabeth Cobbs

Book Overview

In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing's explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give women of all races the vote, these courageous young women swore the army oath and settled into their new roles. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674237439
• ISBN13: 9780674237438
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"