The 233 women from around the U.S. — some of whom hailed from the Hudson Valley — were known as the “Hello Girls” as they handled about 26 million calls during six months in 1918 when they were part ...
Pershing, who would become a personal close friend to his entire family. “General John J. Pershing, Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, selected him as his personal Aide-de-Camp,” Bailey ...