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Rosie the Riveter - The Story
Rosie the Riveter Story

From 1942 through 1945, thousands of women across Los Angeles County (along with millions across the country) stepped into the industrial roles of men leaving en masse to fight in Europe and the Pacific. They came to be nicknamed "Rosie the Riveter."