You've likely seen the iconic image before - a woman in a red polka-dot bandana, rolling up her sleeve and flexing her muscle ...
She and some friends got jobs at Boeing in the 1940s, where she said she fell in love with the B-17 bomber ... Inquirer summarized Krier's WWII role. Another embodiment of Rosie the Riveter ...
PEGASUS BRIDGE, France -- When the 5,000th B-17 bomber built after Pearl Harbor rolled out of its Boeing factory, teenage riveter Anna Mae Krier made sure it would carry a message from the women ...
A World War II veteran in western Maryland celebrated his 100th birthday on Wednesday. Staff Sgt. Melvin Hurwitz piloted B-17 bombers over Europe during the ...
Hewas drafted into the United States Army Air Corps in 1942 and participated in a year-long training to be part of a B-17 crew as a radio operator ... “I came home from WWII on July 8, 1945 on a rest ...