Biography:Merle Egan Anderson
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Merle Egan Anderson (born Merle Egan, Smith Center, Kansas c. 1888, died 1984)[1][2] was a member of the United States Army Signal Corps' Female Telephone Operators Unit during World War I. She is one of the first 447 female veterans of the U.S. Army.[3] She is credited for persisting in the effort to gain the Operators Unit veterans' status, which was eventually awarded by President Jimmy Carter, in 1979.[4][5]
She volunteered as a long-distance telephone operator working for Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company in Helena, Montana.[6] After the war, she married and moved to Seattle.[3]
See also
- American women in World War I
References
Sources
- Cobbs, Elizabeth (2017). The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-97147-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=tD5YDgAAQBAJ.
- Ashley Mattingly (June 24, 2015), The Hello Girls Finally Get Paid, National Archives and Records Administration, https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2015/06/24/the-hello-girls-finally-get-paid/
- Senior Master Sgt. Jerry Hanes (March 2, 2007), "Hello girls set stage for women in the military", Malmstrom Air Force Base news (United States Air Force), http://www.malmstrom.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/349929/hello-girls-set-stage-for-women-in-the-military/
- Gavin, Lettie (1997). American Women in World War I: They Also Served. University Press of Colorado. https://archive.org/details/americanwomeninw00gavi.
- Signal Corps Regimental History, United States Army, November 20, 2013, http://signal.army.mil/old/history/history-hello_girls.html
- "Merle Egan Anderson: Montana's "Hello Girl"", Women's History Matters (Montana Historical Society), November 11, 2014, http://montanawomenshistory.org/merle-egan-anderson-montanas-hello-girl/
- Elizabeth M. Collins (March 2014), "World war I's Hello Girls: paving the way for women in the U.S. Army", Soldiers (United States Army), http://soldiers.dodlive.mil/2014/03/world-war-is-hello-girls-paving-the-way-for-women-in-the-u-s-army/
- "Merle Egan Anderson "The Spirit That Prompted Overseas Service"", Carry On (Women's Overseas Service League) 66-69, 1986, https://books.google.com/books?id=HqbvAAAAMAAJ
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