[DOWNLOAD] "Grace Banker and Her Hello Girls Answer the Call" by Claudia Friddell & Elizabeth Baddeley # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Grace Banker and Her Hello Girls Answer the Call
- Author : Claudia Friddell & Elizabeth Baddeley
- Release Date : January 02, 2021
- Genre: Biography,Books,Kids,Young Adult,History,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 28706 KB
Description
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.