French singer Marie Miossec has only been in America for two years because of her father’s transfer to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and she dashes a career in opera in order to aid the two countries she calls home. Valerie DeSmedt, a Los Angeles resident, hopes to honor her hometown of Brussels, which recently bore the kaiser’s devastating onslaught. It was no secret that the most talented telephone operators at the time were female-the job required nimbleness, steady nerves, and a “smile in her voice"-and who better to translate French and English phone commands than American “hello girls”? New Jersey resident Grace Banker feels called to enlist on account of her French studies at Barnard, and her strong sense of patriotic duty soon promotes her to chief operator of the Signal Corps’ First Unit to France. John Pershing’s 1918 call to arms for the “young women of America” to enroll in the American Expeditionary Forces in France. A historical tale focuses on three women whose key roles as telephone operators helped lead the Allies to victory in World War I.Ĭhiaverini’s latest opens with Gen.
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