Documentary Filmmakers Looking for 'Rosie the Riveters' in MI - Anyone know any?

[1776Forever]

I think this is really neat! The women of that era were true trail blazers and kept the families together while their loved ones were overseas in WWII.



Filmmakers Looking for 'Rosie the Riveters' in MI
Last Update: 3/24
AP Reporting

http://www.wxyz.com/content/news/movies/story/Filmmakers-Looking-for-Rosie-the-Riveters-in-MI/ahVM-g0_3UWfEC0QzonIgQ.cspx

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A new project affiliated with New York University is looking for real-life "Rosie the Riveters" in Michigan.

Filmmakers Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly are recording the oral histories of women who went to work in America's defense plants and munitions factories during World War II.

The filmmakers will be in Michigan at the end of next month to interview "Michigan Rosies."

They hope to have completed a documentary by the spring of 2011 and are working with the Tamiment Labor Archives at NYU, which contains archival, print, photograph, film and oral history collections documenting the history of the labor movement.

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On the Net:

Michigan Film Office announcement: http://bit.ly/ah6RC6

[Roselma]

1. I think it is because

of this:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/21/us/vast-plant-for-tanks-has-closed.html

"Longer and broader than the Statue of Liberty is tall, the vast tank factory in Warren, Mich., helped give the Detroit area its nickname as the Arsenal of Democracy, and contributed to the legend of Rosie the Riveter, the model woman worker in the arms industry during World War II. "

[1776Forever]

5. Yes it sure seems that may be what they are aiming at. Hope there are a few left around there!

My father-in-law is 85 and a WWII Vet. His wife passed away 6 years ago and she worked in a plant in PA at the time he was overseas. It is too bad they didn't do it sooner as a lot of the posters here have suggested. Thanks for giving us the link!

[mrcheerful]

2. To bad they didn't do this back in 2001 my aunt was a wielder at the Tank line at

Malabu Iron in the 40's during the war years. She was upset when she had to quit the job after the war. She passed away in the fall of 2002, lung cancer.

[begin_within]

3. No, but my Mom was a United States Marine, 1943-1945

My Dad was a Marine too, for 20 years, and my Grandfather was a Marine in WWI.

[old mark]

4. My mom worked at several jobs of this type in WWII - she worked for

Vultee Aircraft on a dive bomber used mainly by the Marines and the Austrailians in the Pacific and later worked on parts of the Norden bombsight.

Sadly, she died in 1983.

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