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Once performed by men, now going overseas. One group of women, however, possessed a skill much needed by the army. Fighting a war required Reliable Communications network, but more than twoandahalf years of war had devastated the french telephone system. General john j. Pershing called upon the expertise of women telephone operators. More than 1700 women applied and just over 200 served in europe with the army. Their service is documented in their official personnel files, now in the National Ar...

Once performed by men, now going overseas. One group of women, however, possessed a skill much needed by the army. Fighting a war required Reliable Communications network, but more than twoandahalf years of war had devastated the french telephone system. General john j. Pershing called upon the expertise of women telephone operators. More than 1700 women applied and just over 200 served in europe with the army. Their service is documented in their official personnel files, now in the National Ar...

Tour of castle spaces not open to the public with steve berry and curator Richard Stamm. Much of mr. Berrys latest work took place here. Richard stamm is the author of the castle. The illustrated history of the building. We met our tour guide in the crypt. This is about 40 minutes. I am steve berry. I am here with Richard Stamm Richard Stamm. Steve berry he has a cool job, he looks after this stuff in the building. This is a really interesting place where it all started. The smithsonian was star...

Possessed a skill much needed by the army, fighting a war required Reliable Communications network but more than two and a half years of war had devastated the french telephone system. General john pershing, commander in chief of the American Expeditionary forces called on the expertise of women telephone operators. More than 1700 women applied and just over 200 serve the with the army. The services are documented in their personnel files now in the National Archives at st. Louis. A collection o...

Possessed a skill much needed by the army, fighting a war required Reliable Communications network but more than two and a half years of war had devastated the french telephone system. General john pershing, commander in chief of the American Expeditionary forces called on the expertise of women telephone operators. More than 1700 women applied and just over 200 serve the with the army. The services are documented in their personnel files now in the National Archives at st. Louis. A collection o...

In iraq in 2005. A call to cut calories in pizzas, burgers and ready meals as the government tries to tackle child obesity in england. In sport, england shine under the test match lights. Centuries forjoe root and Alastair Cook put england in control of the first day night test against west indies. And matt has the weather. Good morning. Iam good morning. I am alongside i2 yachts which will start a 40,000 miles round the world trip and race on sunday. It is run by amateurs. I have the weather de...

Right now there say large area around the statue that is sectioned off and police are here now watching over this area. Look at video this is what it looked like earlier this morning after a man got out of the car and spray painted the words black power on the statue. They tell us there are many witnesses and they got a good description of the car and license plate and they expect to catch up with this person and file vandalism and criminal mischief charges today. He also painted another message...

Already have two inches of rain on the ground. A lot of moisture in the atmosphere and coming out at some point during the day. Most likely this afternoon. Still showers in the Lehigh Valley. 74 degrees in new jersey. 73 degrees in the suburbs. Warming into the upper 80s. May see some breaks of sunshine, but mostly cloudy one and then stormy later this afternoon. And this evening. And even a storm threat at the shore, for the temperatures climb into the upper 70s. Ill break it down hour by hour ...

Moment. We have issued to make sure youre prepared. You can see where the rain is falling at this hour. We are track ing the weather. Heavy down hours, potential for flooding. Storms could produce damaging winds. An isolated tornado is possible. We have seen some showers and also some thunderstorms already this morning. They rolled through philadelphia. Right now its moving through at loon tick county. It may not be until late this afternoon that some points along the shore see that. The evening...

And now live from the mississippi book festival a panel of writers from the heritage of mississippi series. Good morning everyone. Thank you for coming to the panel. Im Chris Goodwin. Welcome to the heritage of mississippi series panel. Katie blunt is the director of the Mississippi Department and a longtime member of the Mississippi Historical society. Two of the groups are responsible for the series she will moderate this penal. Thank you very much. Pleased to be here. I want to begin by recog...