cutiger83 Posted November 15, 2014 Share #26 Posted November 15, 2014 Female factory workers in 1942, Long Beach, California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 15, 2014 Share #27 Posted November 15, 2014 “Rosie the Riveter” While women worked in a variety of positions previously closed to them, the aviation industry saw the greatest increase in female workers. More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943, representing 65 percent of the industry’s total workforce (compared to just 1 percent in the pre-war years). The munitions industry also heavily recruited women workers, as represented by the U.S. government’s “Rosie the Riveter” propaganda campaign. Based in small part on a real-life munitions worker, but primarily a fictitious character, the strong, bandanna-clad Rosie became one of the most successful recruitment tools in American history, and the most iconic image of working women during World War II. In movies, newspapers, posters, photographs, articles and even a Norman Rockwell-painted Saturday Evening Post cover, the Rosie the Riveter campaign stressed the patriotic need for women to enter the work force—and they did, in huge numbers. Though women were crucial to the war effort, their pay continued to lag far behind their male counterparts: Female workers rarely earned more than 50 percent of male wages. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/american-women-in-world-war-ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 15, 2014 Share #28 Posted November 15, 2014 Here, a woman rivets an airplane wing at a munitions factory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 15, 2014 Share #29 Posted November 15, 2014 Worker inspecting bullets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 15, 2014 Share #30 Posted November 15, 2014 Factory worker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 15, 2014 Share #31 Posted November 15, 2014 Here, a woman rivets an airplane wing at a munitions factory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyCanteen Posted November 15, 2014 Share #32 Posted November 15, 2014 Great photos! RC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZPhil Posted November 16, 2014 Share #33 Posted November 16, 2014 Fantastic thread!!! Thanks for all the pic's! Semper Fi Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted November 16, 2014 Share #34 Posted November 16, 2014 I've posted these before, courtesy of the Ordnance Museum Facebook page: Rosie the Ordnance specialist... these women are testing mortar rounds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 17, 2014 Share #35 Posted November 17, 2014 Members of a riveting team at an aircraft factory use rivet guns and bucking bars to work on a basis trainer plane wing center section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 17, 2014 Share #36 Posted November 17, 2014 Workers riveting the center wing section for a B-24E Liberator bomber in the horizontal position at the Ford Motor Company plant, Willow Run, Mich., 1943. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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vette Posted November 17, 2014 Author Share #38 Posted November 17, 2014 Thanks for all of the support for these ladies. Many are gone but there are still many around. They do not brag about it but they are in our families. If you have a grand mother in her 80's or 90's, ask her what she did during the war. My neighbor's grand mother Rosalia E. "Babe" Suchek helped make the Corsairs here in Akron Ohio. She passed at 91 in 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted November 17, 2014 Share #39 Posted November 17, 2014 If you look up the B-29 "Doc," one of the restoration volunteers actually helped to make the very same plane... when it was new...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 18, 2014 Share #40 Posted November 18, 2014 The next set of pictures are from the Life Magazine website. Captions listed with pictures are the original pictures from Life Magazine in WWII. The pictures are titled: Women of Steel: LIFE With Female Factory Workers in World War II http://life.time.com/history/women-of-steel-life-with-female-factory-workers-in-world-war-ii/#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 18, 2014 Share #41 Posted November 18, 2014 Women laborers clear tracks of spilled materials, Gary, Ind. 1943. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 18, 2014 Share #42 Posted November 18, 2014 Women wearing gas masks clean a blast furnace top at a Gary, Ind. steel mill, 1943. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 18, 2014 Share #43 Posted November 18, 2014 Women employees at Tubular Alloy Steel Corp. in Gary, Ind. predominate at pep meeting, 1943. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 18, 2014 Share #44 Posted November 18, 2014 Bernice Daunora, 31, a member of a steel mill's "top gang" who must wear a "one-hour, lightweight breathing apparatus" as protection against gas escaping from blast furnaces, Gary, Ind., 1943. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 18, 2014 Share #45 Posted November 18, 2014 Theresa Arana, 21, takes down temperature recordings at draw furnaces, Gary, Ind., 1943. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 18, 2014 Share #46 Posted November 18, 2014 Caption from LIFE. "Stamping machine in rail mill at Gary is operated by Mrs. Florence Romanowski (right). She mechanically brands identifications into red-hot rails. Her husband is in Army." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 18, 2014 Share #47 Posted November 18, 2014 Caption from LIFE. "Katherine Mrzljak, 34, is one of top gang. She is Croatian, has two children. Husband also works in mill." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 18, 2014 Share #48 Posted November 18, 2014 Women welders, Gary, Ind., 1943. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 18, 2014 Share #49 Posted November 18, 2014 Scarfing is the operation which removes surface defects from slabs to condition them for rolling. Girl (center) marks out defects with chalk for man who is doing the scarfing (right). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted November 18, 2014 Share #50 Posted November 18, 2014 Audra Mae Hulse, 20, is flame cutter at the American Bridge Co. in Gary. She has five relatives in plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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