Hello Girls - America's First Women Soldiers Cobbs ElizabethPaperback
Hello Girls - America's First Women Soldiers Cobbs ElizabethPaperback In 1918, the U.S. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to…
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Hello Girls - America's First Women Soldiers Cobbs ElizabethPaperback
In 1918, the U.S. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing's explicit request.
Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they faced in a war zone where male soldiers wooed, mocked, and ultimately celebrated them.The army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920, the year Congress ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. 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. When they sailed home, they were unexpectedly dismissed without veterans' benefits and began a sixty-year battle that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979.
"What an eye-opener Cobbs unearths the original letters and diaries of