Participant Info

Membership Number
3083
Salutation
Mrs
First Name
Betty Grant
Middle/Maiden/Previous
Last Name
Gillespie
Address 1
222 5th St NE Apt 207
Address 2
City
Staples
Zip Code
56479
Phone
218-894-4701
Work Code #
Date of Birth
03/31/1924
Date of Death
08/08/2020
Deceased At Join?
Comments
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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