Participant Info
- Membership Number
- 3083
- Newsletter
- No
- Salutation
- Mrs
- First Name
- Betty Grant
- Middle/Maiden/Previous
- Last Name
- Gillespie
- Address 1
- 222 5th St NE Apt 207
- Address 2
- City
- Staples
- State
- MN
- Zip Code
- 56479
- Phone
- 218-894-4701
- Email
- Code
- RO
- Work Code #
- State Membership
- MN
- Status
- 1
- Date of Birth
- 03/31/1924
- Date of Death
- 08/08/2020
- Deceased At Join?
- Name/Location of Company Worked
- St. Paul, MN
- Dates of Work
- Attaching sheets of metal
- Type of Work
- “I worked on B-24 airplanes,” Betty shared, adding that her job entailed attaching sheets of metal to the outside of the planes with rivets. “They called it coweling the outside of the ship,” she went on. “Of course it was a plane; but for some reason they called it the ship.” “There were three different shifts...the graveyard, days and the swing shift. You would rotate every two weeks,” Betty said. She was a riveter for quite a while, but had to take on another assignment because her hands would get too hot and sweaty. “I was getting electric shocks,” she said. Although she continued working on B-24’s, Betty moved on to work on upholstery for the inside walls of flight decks and cock pits. “We took the measurements to the upholstery shop and hopefully things would fit when we put them back in.” Betty continued to work at the factory until the end of the war.
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