Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

When General John Pershing discovered that doughboys did not have the skills necessary to manage the telephone switchboards to keep him connected with troops under fire, he brought in a team of women "wire experts" to handle this job in World War I. They were masters of this latest technology, and they became America?s first women soldiers. The documentary film The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers tells the heroic story of these 223 women and how they helped win…