Kelly: 'Rosies' rolled up their sleeves, fought the war on homefront
My mom worked at the Martin Bomber plant building B-29's including the Enola Gay. The plant is still there on the base. It is just a few miles from where we live.
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By Michael Kelly / World-Herald columnist
Rosie the Riveter is the iconic image for women who helped win World War II in factories far from the front, but the real Rosies dont see their stories as especially riveting.
I had to do something to get my brothers home, said Wilma Foster of Laurel, Maryland.
Said Louise Unkrich of Swedesburg, Iowa, who riveted ailerons at the Martin Bomber Plant south of Omaha: We just had a job to do, and we did it.
The American Rosie the Riveter Association is holding its national convention this weekend in Omaha, and some took a half-hour ride Saturday afternoon to the Strategic Air & Space Museum near Ashland, Nebraska, to view the nations historic aircraft.
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