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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, Random House, New York, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4000-6964-4. Knaff, Donna B. Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women of World War II in American Popular Graphic Art (University Press of Kansas; 2012) 214 pages; excerpt and text search ISBN 9780700619665 OCLC 892062945
The "Rosies" were women recruited by U.S. defense manufacturers during WWII to help build tanks, ships and planes. A real-life Rosie the Riveter, Jennifer McMullen, turns 100 Skip to main content
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is a 1980 documentary film and the first movie made by Connie Field, about the American women who went to work during World War II to do "men's jobs." [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally ...
Rosie the Riveter (Westinghouse poster, 1942). The image became iconic in the 1980s. American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable.
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As the last woman in line, I placed a purple-painted sponge on the nose cone, indicating the bomb was ready for detonation. They went to General MacArthur in the Philippines.” After the war, the ...
Elinor Otto (October 28, 1919 – November 12, 2023) was an American factory worker who was an original "Rosie the Riveter". She built airplanes for over a half-century, and spent many years working for Boeing before retiring at age 95. She was known as the "Last Serving Rosie the Riveter". [1] [2]
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