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Author Cobbs, Elizabeth, author.

Title The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers / Elizabeth Cobbs.

Publisher Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.

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Physical Description 370 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents America's last citizens -- Neutrality defeated, and the telephone in war and peace -- Looking for soldiers and finding women -- We're going over: recruiting the Hello Girls -- Pack your kit: selection and training -- Wilson adopts suffrage and the Signal Corps embarks -- Americans find their way, over there -- Better late than never: the battle for the Marne -- Wilson fights for a mandate at home -- Together in the crisis of Meuse-Argonne -- Peace without victory medal -- Soldiering forward in the twentieth century.
Summary This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army.
Subject United States. Army. Signal Corps -- History -- 20th century.
United States. Army -- Women -- History.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Communications.
Telephone operators -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Female.
Women soldiers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women veterans -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women soldiers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Sex discrimination against women -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Alternate Title America's first women soldiers