Betty Bishop is an original “Rosie the Riveter,” one of many thousands of female workers who drove the U.S. Arsenal of Democracy during WWII, manufacturing essential war materials including aircraft, vehicles and ships. Betty has been honored by the CAF Airbase Georgia, which named its restored P-63 Kingcobra “Miss Betty.” […]
Rosies Are Dedicated. Jane Tucker was just 16 years old in 1943 when she, her mother, Iris, and sister, Betty, headed to Savannah, Georgia from Lineville, Alabama. Jane’s father had previously left the family, so Jane and her mother were both working jobs in Lineville to help support the family. […]
In the midst of a primarily metalworking shop at the Airbase Georgia, a wooden work of art is taking shape in the form of a PT-19 wing. This wooden craftsmanship is the work of a crew headed by Col Paul Brunks. He relies on the assistance of crewmembers Col Forest […]
Rosies came from all walks of life – single, married, suburben housewife, farm girl, big city, small town – all coming together in the factories, into completely new experiences, to serve in a time of need. Just like Rosies during the war, Rosie Jane (L) and Rosie Robin (R) have […]
Rosies Are Resilient. Eleanor Stark, 95, still speaks her mind, still keeps her husband’s memory alive, still actively supports military organizations. In 1942, at the age of 17, she married Luther “Buck” Bagley. In short order she was a military wife and mother of a young son, whose husband was […]
Rosies Are Pioneers. The Minton Family made factory work during the war a family affair. Elizabeth “Liz” Minton, 95, her mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt were all Rosies during the war. Liz herself worked as a riveter and bucker at Doak Aircraft Company in Torrance, CA. Doak manufactured fuselage sections […]
Norman Rockwell’s image of “Rosie the Riveter” received mass distribution on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on Memorial Day, May 29, 1943. Rockwell’s illustration features a brawny woman taking her lunch break with a rivet gun on her lap and beneath her penny loafer a copy of Adolf […]
Rosies Are Adaptable. From farm life beginnings in Fulton, Mississippi to factory work in Ypsilanti, Michigan, to a career with Sears Roebuck and Company in Marietta, Georgia, Earline Gaither was faced with many changes throughout her life. As a teenage wife, whose husband was rejected from service due to a […]
Artist J. Howard Miller is thought to have based his “We Can Do It!” poster on a United Press International wire service photograph taken of a young female war worker, widely but possibly erroneously reported as being a photo of Michigan war worker Geraldine Hoff (later Doyle). More recent evidence […]