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Men do not have a monopoly on 'manly work'. Nope: just because a 'Rosie the Riviter' picture looks posed don't ever think women are the bottom of the industrial talent barrel. To see her walk the track girders 80 ft up half the length of the shop from the crane to the ladder was enough to make anyone cringe. She could set a ship's propeller on the balancer without a jar. She was a master on the high bay bridge crane. We had a tall skinny crane operator name Kay.

Rosie the riveter tools of the trade movie#

Ever see the movie 'swingshift' with Goldie Hawn? Its backgroud is a pretty accurate depiction of life among women on the Home Front. They did everything in aircraft production there was to do including ferry pilot. She might not be interested in machinery but she can do any task I ask her to do if I show her what needs to be done.ДЄll over US and England women did men's work veen the most fatiguing, grueling, and dirty. My SWMBO Barbara can do anything mechanical I ask of her. When she needed to tighten the faceplate jaws she just got a long cheater on the chuck wrench so she could use her 110 lb weight to best advantage.

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It was hard work even for a 6 ft plus guy like me. She ran the big shaft lathes single handed which takes lots of muscle. She has plenty of air but Gad! The confinement!. I know about this because Anne asked me to tie the retrieving line to her ankles. She was once sent up the 13' dia bore of a tailshaft about 45 ft to inspect the 'Bottle neck where the bore narrowed to about 8'. One of my best apprentices was Anne Lindberg. My aunt Merla told me of a friend of hers whose job it was to enter compartments of battle damaged ships and clear them of corpses.

Women are not squeamish, fearful or sissy. he balance of the production work could be done by women without a problem. They may not have had the brute muscle for some of the work but only a small proportion of all the activities in ship building actually requires it. Through historic structures, museum collections, interpretive exhibits, and programs, the park tells the diverse and fascinating story of the WWII home front.Staged or not there were millions of women in war industry and thousands of them worked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard including three of my aunts. The war truly touched every aspect of civilian life on the home front. At the same time, Executive Order 9066 forcibly removed Japanese and Japanese-American residents from the area, disrupting RichmondвЂ™s thriving cut-flower industry. The city grew from less than 24,000 people in 1940 to nearly 100,000 people by 1943, overwhelming the available housing, roads, schools, businesses and community services. Richmond was also home to over 56 different war industries, more than any other city of its size in the United States. The four Richmond shipyards produced 747 ships, more than any other shipyard complex in the country.

Richmond played a significant and nationally recognized part in the World War II home front. These stories include the mobilization of AmericaвЂ™s industry and the changes in production techniques the struggle for womenвЂ™s and minority rights the labor movement the growth of pre-paid medical care advances in early childhood education and day care recycling and rationing major shifts in population and changes in arts and culture.

Richmond, California was chosen as the site for this National Historical Park because it has so many surviving sites and structures from the World War II years that can help tell the diverse stories of the home front. Inside the Visitor Center you will find exhibits highlighting both local and the national WWII Home Front history, as well as some museum artifacts from our collection. We recommend that you start your visit at the Visitor Education Center in the Historic Ford Building Complex in Richmond, along the waterfront.