Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...

Lucretia Jane Tucker, soon to be 98, is one of the few remaining "Rosie the Riveters," women who worked in factory jobs during World War II


(She doesn't look nearly 98)

Lucretia Jane Tucker, left, her mother, Iris, and her sister, Betty. left their Alabama home in 1943 to help build ships in Savannah

Upon arrival in Savannah, the Tuckers went straight to training. They learned to be welders, doing their part to build “Liberty Ships,” the 441-foot-long workhorses that transported supplies across the ocean. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a ship aficionado, called the craft “a real ugly duckling.” The Savannah shipyard went on to build 88 ducklings and the U.S., after perfecting prefabrication, constructed 2,700 Liberties overall.

The job was six days a week, 10 hours a day. It was hard and could be dangerous. Jane worked with teams of eight to 12 women on slabs welding vertical steel walls, which were then hoisted into place by a crane. They wore heavy boots mid-calf, long-sleeve shirts, thick pants and suede gloves. If you were welding above your head, you had to wear a heavy leather jacket for protection.

(Story from AJC. It interested me because my aunt went to Nashville to work on planes as a "Rosie the Riveter". Although she was from Georgia, Nashville was where she met my uncle as a soldier prior to deployment. Growing up, I lived next door)