When the 5,000th B-17 bomber built after Pearl Harbor rolled out of its Boeing factory, teenage riveter Anna Mae Krier made sure it would carry a message from the women of World War II: She signed her ...
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — Eighty years after leaving her St. Louis neighborhood to help repair warships during World War II, a Metro East woman known as a “Rosie the Riveter” has received one of the nation ...
PEGASUS BRIDGE, France (AP) — When the 5,000th B-17 bomber built after Pearl Harbor rolled out of its Boeing factory, teenage riveter Anna Mae Krier made sure it would carry a message from the women ...
PEGASUS BRIDGE, France (AP) — In World War II, millions of women rolled up their sleeves and worked in defense-industry factories, freeing up and equipping men for combat. They had their own icon in ...