Workers assembling P-38 Lightning fighters at the Vultee Aircraft - TopicsExpress



          

Workers assembling P-38 Lightning fighters at the Vultee Aircraft Corporation factory, Nashville, Tennessee Women on the Home Front During World War II over six million women took wartime jobs in factories or farms, three million women volunteered with the Red Cross, and over 200,000 women served in the military. As men were shipped overseas by the thousands, women had to take over jobs traditionally held by men, despite their lack of experience. Women took important jobs in such factories as the Vultee Aircraft Plant in Nashville, where approximately one-third of the wartime employees were women. This plant built O-49 observation planes, A-35 Vengeance dive bombers, and P-38 Lightning fighters. Any woman who worked in the factories was soon dubbed Rosie the Riveter after a popular cartoon figure.
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:18:51 +0000

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