“The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers,” a Discussion with Elizabeth Cobbs

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

History

4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Historian, novelist, and documentary filmmaker Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs joins the podcast to discuss her 2019 book on the story of the US Army Signal Corps’ “Hello Girls,” the American Army’s first female soldiers.

Book link: http://elizabethcobbs.com/the-hello-girls

Elizabeth Cobbs’ website: http://elizabethcobbs.com/

Support a Congressional Gold Medal for the WWI Hello Girls!

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/715-valor-medals/valor-medals-meet-the-heroes/7321-hello-girls-congress.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Interested in the 2024 Lost Battalion Tours’ Meuse-Argonne battlefield tour?

Email us: [email protected]

The BFWWP is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BattlesoftheFirstWorldWarPodcast.

Any questions, comments or concerns please contact me through the website, www.firstworldwarpodcast.com. Follow us on Twitter at @WW1podcast, the Battles of the First World War Podcast page on FaceBook, and on Instagram at @WW1battlecast. Not into social media? Email me directly at [email protected]. Please consider reviewing the Battles of the First World War Podcast on iTunes.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The Hey folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast.
0:53.4	If you've watched the discussion episodes, you'll usually see a portion of my library behind me.
1:00.5	So absolutely no one should be surprised when I say that I love books.
1:06.4	I also love acquiring them.
1:09.8	So in 2019, I bought a book named the Hello Girls, America's
1:15.8	First Women's Soldiers, in the hope of someday doing an episode on the women's subjects of that book.
1:22.4	So while the world can be grim and dark, it can also shine with light. And this is something that I really
1:30.1	believe. And this afternoon is one of those days of light because we will be able to speak with the
1:38.1	very author of that book, Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs. And I'm so very excited.
1:44.7	Me too. I'm so very excited. Me too.
1:45.4	I'm so happy, Mike. Thank you.
1:48.2	Yeah, thank you for coming on.
1:49.7	And, you know, I just got compared to Matt Damon.
1:54.0	So that's the afternoon is a win-win.
1:57.0	So moving on.
2:00.1	Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs is a historian, novelist, and documentary filmmaker,
2:04.9	author of nine books. She has served on jury for the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Historical
2:10.7	Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department. She has written for the New York Times,
2:15.5	financial times, and Washington Post. He Stanford Ph, COBS is the Emerita Melbourne, Glasscock chair at Texas A&M.
2:24.3	In 2020, the US Army Signal Corps Association named her Brevet Colonel for unearthing the story of the Hello Girls,
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -441 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mike Cunha, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mike Cunha and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.