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A real-life "
Rosie the Riveter
" operating a hand
drill
at a
Vultee Aircraft
factory,
Nashville, Tennessee
, working on an
A-31 Vengeance
dive bomber
in 1943. "Rosie" was a
cultural icon
of the
United States
, representing the six million women who entered the
workforce
for the first time during
World War II
Photo credit: Alfred T. Palmer,
OWI
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