Hello Girls, WWI's pioneering female soldiers, finally gain veteran recognition

Hundreds of women were denied veteran recognition and benefits for decades despite their frontline service during World War I.

Nearly a century after they routed calls across the Western Front under artillery fire, the women known as the Hello Girls have at last been formally recognized as what they always were: soldiers. Recruited by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1917 to operate telephone switchboards in France, these hundreds of women wore uniforms, served in forward positions, and held the communications lifeline of the American Expeditionary Forces — yet were denied veteran status for decades on a legal technicality. Their belated recognition is less a gift from history than a confession by it, a quiet admission t

Hello Girls, WWI's pioneering female soldiers, finally gain veteran recognition

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