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In reply to the discussion: 18 Color Photos Of Female WWII Workers That Will Make You Proud(er) To Be A Woman [View all]senseandsensibility
(16,713 posts)24. Wow! 93 and still working at Boeing!
That is amazing. I had no idea. It's sad that she kept working there for sixty or seventy years, and now her job is being lost to offshoring.
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one_voice
Aug 2014
OP
Proud ot be an American woman. I doubt the women supporting the Axis are entitled to as much pride.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2014
#2
I doubt that many women in Axis countries were doing tasks like the ones in these photos.
Brigid
Aug 2014
#14
I would've thought that killing millions of innocent people was Germany's biggest mistake
Yavin4
Aug 2014
#38
My father's sisters worked making wings for planes, machining and fitting them together, and making
freshwest
Aug 2014
#4
My mom worked on the Enola Gay when it was being built at the Martin Bomber plant
Omaha Steve
Aug 2014
#12
Thank you for posting that great story about all the Purple Hearts made for
amandabeech
Aug 2014
#37