Merle Egan Anderson (born Merle Egan, Smith Center, Kansas c. 1888, died 1984)[1][2] was a member of the United States Army Signal Corps' Female Telephone Operators Unit during World War I. She is one of the first 447 female veterans of the U.S. Army.[3] She is credited for persisting in the effort to gain the Operators Unit veterans' status, which was eventually signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1977.[4][5]
She worked as a long-distance telephone operator for Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company in Helena, Montana.[6]
After the war, she married Hal Anderson and moved to Seattle.[3] She had one child, a son who served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War and died in April 1974 while stationed in the Philippines.[7]
^Women's Overseas Service League 1986.
^Cobbs 2017, p. 302.
^ abHanes 2007.
^Collins 2014.
^Army Signal Corps 2013.
^Montana Historical Society 2014.
^Cobbs 2017, p. 294.
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