These Rosies, women who left the home to work in war industries, were just as responsible for the ultimate US victory as the men doing the fighting. Without the weapons of war, there could be no victory.
Kaiser operated four shipyards in Richmond, California, from 1941 to 1945, and made 747 vessels. Kaiser Shipyard No. 2 set a world record when it built the SS Robert E. Peary in 4 days, 15 hours and 29 minutes.
The "Rosie the Riveter" song was written in 1942 by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loclo. It became a hit in 1943 when it was recorded by several groups, including the Four Vagabonds of St. Louis. I don't remember ever hearing it, though, and I've heard a lot of World War II songs.
The May 29, 1943, Saturday Evening Post featured a Norman Rockwell painting of Rosie the Riveter on the cover, featuring very muscular arms, a grinning face and her foot on a copy of Hitler's "Mein Kampf." Right behind me at the old 'pute, I have a popular poster of an unsmiling Rosie with a sleeve pulled up to reveal a muscular arm and the words "We Can Do It," a popular poster during the war, only mine is metal.
Couldn't Have Done It Without Rosie. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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