Signal Corps switchboard operators
Hello Girls was the colloquial name for American female switchboard operators in World War I, formally known as the Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit. During World War I, these switchboard operators were sworn into the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
The “Hello Girls” fought with skill and cutting edge technology — well, cutting edge for the early 1900s. The Hello Girls were the first women to be sent to war by the U.S. Army, working as telephone switchboard operators and connecting 26 million calls throughout the First World War.
Overlooked No More: Grace Banker, Whose ‘Hello Girls’ Decoded Calls in World War I
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New York Times Article
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Grace Banker's was published in the NYTimes May 15, 2019.
NPR "All things Considered"
Elizabeth Cobbs
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Elizabeth Cobbs: Author of "Hello Girls
Award-winning historian Elizabeth Cobbs brings fresh, unexpected perspectives to our understanding of the past and present.
Join Elizabeth Cobbs, author of The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers, in a discussion on the invaluable role these pioneering woman served and their legacy today. Presented in partnership with the National Archives at Kansas City.
Grace Banker
THE HISTORY OF A HELLO GIRL by Michelle Christides
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THE HISTORY OF A HELLO GIRL; A Special Contribution From Michelle Christides
The history of the "Hello Girls" begins in late 1917, when General Pershing's appeal for bilingual telephone-switchboard operators was published in newspapers throughout the United States. The author takes us through the history of the Hello Girls.
The Musical on Broadway
The Hello Girls
- Category
- Off Broadway, Musical
- Runtime
- 2 hrs. and 15 min.
- Credits
- Music and lyrics by Peter Mills; Book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel; Choreography by Christine O'Grady; Directed by Cara Reichel
- Cast
- Ellie Fishman, Arlo Hill, Chanel Karimkhani, Andrew Mayer, Matthew McGloin, Ben Moss, Lili Thomas, Skyler Volpe, Cathryn Wake and Scott Wakefield
- Preview
- Opened
- Closed
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The World War I Centennial Commission
Documentary
Hello Girls
Filmmaker Jim Theres tells the story of America's first female soldiers. In 1918 the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France as telephone operators to help win the Great War. But you've probably never heard of them. Now you will!
