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100 1  Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Hello Girls :|bAmerica's first women soldiers /
       |cElizabeth Cobbs. 
246 30 America's first women soldiers 
264  1 Cambridge, Massachusetts ;|aLondon, England :|bHarvard 
       University Press,|c[2017] 
300    370 pages,14 unnumbered pages of plates ;|c22 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    "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. 
610 10 United States.|bArmy.|bSignal Corps|xHistory|y20th 
       century. 
610 10 United States.|bArmy|xWomen|xHistory. 
650  0 World War, 1914-1918|xCommunications. 
650  0 Telephone operators|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century.
650  0 World War, 1914-1918|xParticipation, Female. 
650  0 Women soldiers|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Women veterans|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Women soldiers|xLegal status, laws, etc.|zUnited States. 
650  0 Sex discrimination against women|zUnited States|xHistory
       |y20th century. 
650  0 World War, 1914-1918|xRegimental histories|zUnited States.
650  0 Women|xSuffrage|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century.