Continued from Oct. 5th.
FOUR REAL ROSIES:
ROSE BONAVITA-- of Hickey, NY, had a record-setting 3,345 rivets in an Avenger torpedo bomber.
ROSE MONROE-- Riveted B-24s and B-29s in Michigan.
ROSALIND WALKER-- of Long Island, built Corsair fighter planes.
GERALDINE DOYLE-- Was the biceps-flexing model for the "We Can Do It" poster who died last month at the age of 86.
THE ROSIE INSURANCE NAMESAKE
Henry Kaiser made his first money paving roads. After he became a steel and ship magnate, he founded Kaiser Permanente to provide health benefits to his thousands of employees.
UNFAIR, THEN UNEMPLOYED
Women made up 27% of the workforce in the Kaiser Shipyards. They welded, riveted and drilled, but only made 60% of what the men did doing the same jobs.
When the war ended, they were immediately replaced by returning men.
Just Some Rosie Stuff. --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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