Grace Banker and Her Hello Girls Answer the Call: The Heroic Story of WWI Telephone Operators
Author:
Claudia Friddell
Illustrator:
Elizabeth Baddeley
Publication:
2021 by Calkins Creek
Genre:
Biography, Military, Non-fiction, Picture Books
Pages:
40
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When 25-year-old Grace Banker opened her mail form the Signal Corps, she couldn't believe her eyes. Not only did she get the call to serve overseas with the 1st Unit of World War 1 telephone operators, she was named their chief operator. Under Grace's leadership, the female operators, known as "Hello Girls" back in the States, endured bombings, explosions, fires, and freezing weather as they translated commands and transferred secret codes with lightning speed from battlefield headquarters. Their grit and courage helped win the war and earned Grace the Army's Distinguished Service Medal.
Author Claudia Friddell and artist Elizabeth Baddeley worked closely with Grace's granddaughter and relied on World War I archives and artifacts to pay tribute to Grace Banker and her team of Signal Corps operators.
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Grace Banker and Her Hello Girls Answer the Call
Reviewed by Diane Pendergraft
When American men began to go to war by the hundreds of thousands, women took up the slack. They filled the jobs men left open, planted Victory Gardens, sold war bonds, worked with the Red Cross, and conserved food and fuel. But women had never been allowed in the army. They didn’t even have the right to vote.
These women went to war anyway. They loved their country and wanted to help win the war and to support the boys in the trenches.
They faced the dangers and hardships of war without complaining. Almost all the Signal Corps women worked and hoped to be sent as near the front as possible.
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