Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher: HarperLuxe
ISBN: 9780063241978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I--the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory. In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself unable to communicate with troops in the field. Pershing needed operators who could swiftly and accurately connect multiple calls, speak fluent French and English, remain steady under fire, and be utterly discreet, since the calls often conveyed classified information. At the time, nearly all well-trained American telephone operators were women--but women were not permitted to enlist, or even to vote in most states. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army Signal Corps promptly began recruiting them. More than 7,600 women responded, including Grace Banker of New Jersey, a switchboard instructor with AT&T and an alumna of Barnard College; Marie Miossec, a Frenchwoman and aspiring opera singer; and Valerie DeSmedt, a twenty-year-old Pacific Telephone operator from Los Angeles, determined to strike a blow for her native Belgium. They were among the first women sworn into the U.S. Army under the Articles of War. The male soldiers they had replaced had needed one minute to connect each call. The switchboard soldiers could do it in ten seconds. The risk of death was real--the women worked as bombs fell around them--as was the threat of a deadly new disease: the Spanish Flu. Not all of the telephone operators would survive. Sometimes mocked as the "hello girls," the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps served with honor and played an essential role in achieving the Allied victory. Their story has never been the focus of a novel...until now.
Author: United States. Army. Signal Corps
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Category : Military telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Author: Carol Lake
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780747534907
Category : Derbyshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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A collection of short stories based around a switchboard, by the winner of the 1989 "Guardian" fiction prize. They describe the days in the 1960s when telephone operators saved marriages. On Saturday afternoons, when the Exchange hooks up with the Army barracks, romance snaps through the wires.
Author: United States. Employment Standards Administration
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Category : Wages
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Author: United States. Army. Signal Corps
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Category : Military telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Author: Claudia Friddell
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1635923719
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Led by twenty-five-year-old Grace Banker, thirty-two telephone operators — affectionately called "Hello Girls" back in the US — became the first female combatants in World War I. Follow Grace Banker's journey from her busy life as a telephone switchboard trainer in New York to her pioneering role as the Chief Operator of the 1st Unit of World War I telephone operators in the battlefields of France. With expert skill, steady nerves, and steadfast loyalty, the Signal Corps operators transferred orders from commanders to battlefields and communicated top-secret messages between American and French headquarters. After faithfully serving her country —undaunted by freezing weather and fires; long hours and little sleep, and nearby shellings and far off explosions — Grace was the first and only woman operator in the Signal Corps to be awarded the Army's Distinguished Service Medal.
Author: Ivan Habernal
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642235387
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2011, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in September 2011. The 53 papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The main topic of this year's conference was "integrating modern Web with speech and language technologies". This year the Third International Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language was affiliated to TSD. The present book contains 8 contributions from this workshop.
Author: United States. Army. Signal Corps
Publisher:
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Category : Cipher and telegraph codes
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Category : Military supplies
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Category : Telephone companies
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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