Margaret Scott Thompson was born in August 1925. She met her Husband Charles Thompson and they were married in October 1943. It was the middle of World War II. Charles went to Rhode Island with the Navy and Margaret went to work as a “Rosie the Riveter” at the Goodyear Air Craft factory in Akron, … read more »
Rosie Lorraine Miller met her future husband at the USO, became engaged, then did not see her fiancee’s face or hear his voice for three years! Lorraine writes, “I was born on a dairy farm in Fulton, MD, one of two girls and two boys. When I was seventeen years old I heard President Roosevelt … read more »
Rosie Dorothy Rice Schultz joined The Women’s Land Army to do farm work so that she could help feed citizens at home and troops abroad. Newly married, her husband of six months off to war, and a desk job in Washington D.C., Dorothy was interested in helping local farmers. On Sundays, she would go with … read more »
Rosie Marjorie Gallun worked with some men who did not appreciate women workers, found a better job helping to make bombers, and then became a MARINE! Marjorie writes, “We lived near Buffalo, New York where I graduated from high school in 1940. Because of the depression, most everyone had been on welfare. Unemployment was high. I had always … read more »
Rosie Rena Van Buren was a shell casing inspector who knew a soldier’s life depended on her accurate work. Rena writes, “In 1941, I was an 18 year-old single mother in Frostburg, Maryland. I lived on a quiet street where everyone knew everyone else and many were related. On December 7, 1941, my life changed. … read more »
Written by Clyde and Danette Simpson 9/2015 This picture of my mom, Cora Lee Simpson, viewed right, and also her friend on the left, name unknown, worked at the Climax Molybdenum, Company, a Mine in Climax, Colorado, which has been said to have been started in 1879 by about 250 people who completed it … read more »
2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII. From Pearl Harbor until the end of the war contributions to the war effort came from all US citizens by soldiers and civilians alike. Civilians collected vital raw materials like metal and paper, rationed food and fuel, and worked in factories producing the needed products … read more »
When World War II broke out, Carmella Wood, 92, wanted to do her part. “They attacked Pearl Harbor. Before you knew it, all the boys were going into the service,” said Wood, a Summerlin-area resident. “I wanted to go, too, to do my part for this country. My father — he was from Italy — … read more »
“The telegram from the War department instructed me to report to Arlington Hall, Virginia, on September 1, 1943 at 0800 hours. I kissed my teaching job good-bye and packed my bags. Arlington Hall had been a small college just outside Washington, D.C. which during World War II was converted into a Signal Corps Army Post. … read more »
“I answered an ad for Seattle Boeing’s first women’s training school in May, 1942. I turned 22 that month. We were rushed to Boeing after a few days. Could I do what the men expected of me? I was sure going to try. I worked as a rivet bucker on swing shift. We went to … read more »
“Our romance started in April 1944. I was a senior in high school and Ed had just signed up for service in the U.S. Nary. Ed went to boot camp in Sampson, N.Y.. I graduated high school on June 4, 1944 and applied for a clerk’s job in Watson Flagg Machine Co. in Patterson, N.J. … read more »
Around 1940, when I was 17 and fresh out of high school, I was working my first job as a secretary to four realtors and an insurance agent. I had a friend named Dorothy VanBushirk, now deceased, whose husband was in the military. After receiving the dreaded news that he had been killed in action, … read more »