Hello Girls
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Hello Girls, formally the Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit, were American female switchboard operators in World War I. During the war, these switchboard operators were sworn into the U.S.
Hello Girls operating switchboards at general headquarters in Chaumont, France (November 5, 1918)
American telephone girls arriving for "hello" duty in France (March 1918}
Chief Operator Grace Banker receiving the Distinguished Service Medal
Poster for the United War Work Campaign (November 11–18, 1918)
Grace Banker
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Grace D. Banker was a telephone operator who served during World War I as chief operator of mobile for the American Expeditionary Forces in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. She led thirty-three women telep
Hello Girls
…Messelin aka Ellarane Caldwell, did join the unit by claiming that she was white. After training, the first operators, under the lead of Chief Operator Grace Banker, left for Europe in March 1918. Members of this unit were soon operating telephones in many exchanges of the American Expeditionary Forces in Paris…
Signal Corps Telephone Girls receive decorations. In the back row, first from left is Grace D. Banker