Download or read book The Hello Girls written by Elizabeth Cobbs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing’s explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give women of all races the vote, these courageous young women swore the army oath and settled into their new roles. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they faced in a war zone where male soldiers wooed, mocked, and ultimately celebrated them. The army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920, the year Congress ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. When they sailed home, they were unexpectedly dismissed without veterans’ benefits and began a sixty-year battle that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. “What an eye-opener! Cobbs unearths the original letters and diaries of these forgotten heroines and weaves them into a fascinating narrative with energy and zest.” —Cokie Roberts, author of Capital Dames “This engaging history crackles with admiration for the women who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during the First World War, becoming the country’s first female soldiers.” —New Yorker “Utterly delightful... Cobbs very adroitly weaves the story of the Signal Corps into that larger story of American women fighting for the right to vote, but it’s the warm, fascinating job she does bringing her cast...to life that gives this book its memorable charisma... This terrific book pays them a long-warranted tribute.” —Christian Science Monitor “Cobbs is particularly good at spotlighting how closely the service of military women like the Hello Girls was tied to the success of the suffrage movement.” —NPR
Download or read book The Signal Corps written by George Raynor Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army Signal Corps Subversion and Espionage written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army Reorganization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traumatic Imprints written by Noah Tsika and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike. Traumatic Imprints traces the development of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic approaches to wartime trauma by the United States military, along with links to formal and narrative developments in military and civilian filmmaking. Offering close readings of a series of films alongside analysis of period scholarship in psychiatry and bolstered by research in trauma theory and documentary studies, Noah Tsika argues that trauma was foundational in postwar American culture. Examining wartime and postwar debates about the use of cinema as a vehicle for studying, publicizing, and even what has been termed “working through” war trauma, this book is an original contribution to scholarship on the military-industrial complex.
Download or read book First Deficiency Appropriation Bill 1919 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Signals written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Your Career in the Army written by Jason Porterfield and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to careers in the United States Army, covering what to expect from the recruitment process and basic training, as well as the different career paths available.
Download or read book Index of Army Motion Pictures Film Strips Slides and Phono recordings written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gambler and the Scholars written by John F. Dooley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1917, William and Elizebeth Friedman were asked by the U.S. Army to begin training officers in cryptanalysis and to decrypt intercepted German diplomatic and military communications. In June 1917, Herbert Yardley convinced the new head of the Army’s Military Intelligence Division to create a code and cipher section for the Army with himself as its head. These two seminal events were the beginning of modern American cryptology, the growth of which culminated 35 years later with the creation of the National Security Agency. Each running their own cryptologic agencies in the 1920s, the Friedman-Yardley relationship was shattered after Yardley published a tell-all book about his time in military intelligence. Yet in the end, the work they all started in 1917 led directly to the modern American intelligence community. As they got older, they became increasingly irrelevant in the burgeoning American cryptologic fraternity. Topics and features: * Examines the lives of three remarkable and pioneering cryptologists * Offers fascinating insights into spies, codes and ciphers, rumrunners, poker, and military history * Sheds new light on interesting parts of the cryptologists’ careers—especially Elizebeth Friedman, whose work during World War II has just begun to be explored * Recounts several good stories, i.e., What if the Friedmans had gone to work for Herbert Yardley in his new Cipher Bureau in 1919? What if Yardley had moved back to Washington to work for William Friedman a decade later? This enjoyable book has wide appeal for: general readers interested in the evolution of American cryptology, American historians (particularly of World War I, the inter-war period, and World War II signals intelligence), and historians of—and general readers interested in—American military intelligence. It also can be used as an auxiliary text or recommended reading in introductory or survey courses in history or on the related topics.
Download or read book Inspired by True Events written by Robert J. Niemi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date and indispensable guide for film history buffs of all kind, this book surveys more than 500 major films based on true stories and historical subject matter. When a film is described as "based on a true story" or "inspired by true events," exactly how "true" is it? Which "factual" elements of the story were distorted for dramatic purposes, and what was added or omitted? Inspired by True Events: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 History-Based Films, Second Edition concisely surveys a wide range of major films, docudramas, biopics, and documentaries based on real events, addressing subject areas including military history and war, political figures, sports, and art. This book provides an up-to-date and indispensable guide for all film history buffs, students and scholars of history, and fans of the cinema.
Download or read book A Study and Investigation of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct a Study and Survey of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study and Investigation of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army Appropriation Bill written by United States. Congress. House. Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
