The Hello Girls of World War 1 were integral to the war’s outcome. But, like the Jamestown Brides, the story of the Hello Girls isn’t well known. In this interview, author Elizabeth Cobbs explains how the WW1 telephone soldiers left their mark on American history.
One hundred years ago, the only known Mormon to have kept a diary while serving in World War I recorded his first entry.
“One can never tell what the morrow will bring and the record of the few weeks I have been in the army might interest some one,” wrote Nels Anderson on June 9, 1918, five months before World War I would end on Nov. 11, 1918.
Kent Powell is a Utah historian and editor of “Nels Anderson’s World War I Diary.” Anderson is the only Utah Latter-day Saint to keep a diary during the first World War, significantly adding to war stories told in Saints 3: Boldly, Nobly, and Independent.