Women in WWI

Merle Egan Anderson was a Telephone Unit of the American Signal Corps that was later named the “Hello Girls”. The women in the “Hello Girls” were the switchboard operators in France but Merle Egan Anderson was originally from Helena Montana. The members from WTU were from Montana, not just Merle. The photo that was chosen is of the “Hello Girls” who had enlisted French-speaking in order to improve the wartime communication and relaying messages about other troop movements during the War. In the picture it shows them sitting in a booth with telephones, they are most likely communicating or relaying information to their side of the War. The “Hello Girls” would operate telephones, switchboard, sworn into the U.S army signal corps during world war WWI. The name “Hello Girls" had come from women who would greet callers first by saying “hello”.