Yet more bad news for the Motor City.
The Detroit-area factory where Rosie the Riveter showed that a woman could do a “man’s work” by building Second World War-era bombers, making her an enduring symbol of American female empowerment, will be demolished if money can’t be found to save it.
The Willow Run Bomber Plant, a 135-hectare former Ford Motor Co. factory west of Detroit that churned out nearly 9,000 B-24 Liberator bombers during the Second World War, is slated to be torn down unless a group can raise $3.5 million by Thursday to convert at least some of the structure into a new, expanded home for the nearby Yankee Air Museum.
Dressed in overalls and bandanna, Rosie was introduced as a symbol of patriotic womanhood in the 1940s. Rose Will Monroe played “Rosie the Riveter,” the United States’ poster girl for women joining the work force in the Second World War.
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