Real life Rosies.

 Like Rosie, this woman is a true riveter. She drives rivets into an aircraft while her co-worker sits in the cockpit.
Credit : Harold M. Lambert/Lambert/Getty Images

http://history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-ii/rosie-riveter1.htm

 

Original caption: ‘Dora Miles and Dorothy Johnson are employed in the Long Beach Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company.’

Credit:  http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2008/10/rosie_the_rivet

African American Riveters. Women welders in New Britain, Connecticut, 1943.

Credit: http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=women-factory-workers 

 

Female trainees at Middletown, PA, 1944. The Middletown Air Service Command stockpiled parts and overhauled military airplanes. During WWII, Middletown’s workforce grew from 500 to more than 18,000, nearly half of them women.

Credit: http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=women-factory-workers