Working Women

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Rosie the Riveter - Real Person, Facts & Norman Rockwell

Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II. Artist Normal Rockwell's cover image of Rosie, made in 1943, became, perhaps the most iconic image of working women.

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Rosie the Riveter - Real Person, Facts & Norman Rockwell

Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II. Artist Normal Rockwell's cover image of Rosie, made in 1943, became, perhaps the most iconic image of working women.

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You learn things, here! I always thought WASP was White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Who knew it was also Women’s Airforce Service Pilots?

 

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This lady is my wife's relative. She has since passed.

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Today is National Rosie the Riveter Day. I would like to honor a close family friend's mom, Hughlene Stokes. Hughlene was a rivet bucker for Consolidated Vultee Corporation in San Diego. She arrived...

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Who knew it was also Women’s Airforce Service Pilots?

My MIL (RIP) was in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service), the women's US Navy. She was recruited to be a "code-breaker", and was billeted to Washington, DC. Her cover story was that she was an "Aerographer's Mate" (weather forecaster).