Rosie the Riveter's in Long Beach

During World War II, an unprecedented number of women took jobs at aircraft plants, shipyards, munitions factories, and other industries across the nation to produce material essential to winning the war.

Affectionately and collectively called “Rosie the Riveter” after a popular 1943 song, thousands of these women came to the U.S. Army-financed Douglas Aircraft Plant in Long Beach, one of the largest wartime plane manufacturer, to help produce an astonishing number of the aircraft used in the war.

Not Pictured: Bee Close, Elinor Otto, Elmara Perizio, Jean Harrison, and Merrian Ruth Harris

We would also like to honor all the women who could not join us today:

• Janice Wills
• Shirley Mitchell
• Frida Farris
• Lola McDougal
• Gertrude Wolfe
• Edith Haven
• Frances Smith
• Mildred Robinson Strittmater
• Clarinda Henrich-Virnig
• Marjorie Gromme
• Velma Ray
• Aliene Furillo
• Beatrice Ortega
• Ruth Yarbrough
• Hetty Milton
• Jean Kepple Snyder
• Rose Morales
• Margaret Bryant
• Fran Grove
• Lois Lucy
• Payne Glenna
• Cherry Rosalie Long
• Florence Wilson
• Maria Luisa Miramontes Bizuet
• Francis Haber
• Audrey Ryall
• Carlyn Clayton
• Betty Forest
• Connie Lopez
• Vivian Bertschinger