“She can keep a secret.” That headline on the front page of the Los Angeles Examiner on Sept. 27, 1919, welcomed home a war heroine, Juliette Courtial, who had served in World War I with the Hello ...

The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission seeks support for Congressional Gold Medals legislation for the first women to serve in the armed forces The Hello Girls were sworn into the U.S. Army Signal ...

This musical, which had its premiere in New York in 2018, is based on the true story of “America's first female Soldiers”. In this wonderful and important story, we learn how General Pershing decided ...

In 1918, under the order of General John J. Pershing, the Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit sailed for France to run switchboard operations on the frontlines during the twilight of the ...

Led by 25-year-old Grace Banker, 32 telephone operators — affectionately called “Hello Girls” back in the United States — became the first female combatants in World War I. It’s all in author Claudia ...