Glorious colorized images released on International Women's Day show how female factory workers were crucial to victory in the Second World War

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This woman prepares the bombardier nose section of a B-17F heavy bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company in California

 

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As well as the aircraft industry, this woman is working on the barrels of the 105mm howitzer artillery piece

 

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Here, a woman is working inside an A-31 Vengeance dive bomber during February 1943

 

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Here a woman is working inside an A-20 bomber - a light bomber which was also used as a night fighter during World War II

 

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In 1944, Glenn Martin, co-founder of an aircraft company said: 'we have women helping design our planes in the engineering departments, building them on the production line and operating almost every conceivable type of machinery'

 

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This woman is operating a drill on the vital leading edge of a horizontal stabilizer of an aircraft in Inglewood, California

 

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Rosie

 

[Michelangelo]

Awesome.

Could / would American women do this today with the level of concentration, seriousness, and dedication exhibited in those photos?

 

[Willie99]

they were very important

 

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PS: in all seriousness, they were the greatest generation

You can't compare them with the modern day snow flake generation

 

[Michelangelo]

PS: in all seriousness, they were the greatest generation

You can't compare them with the modern day snow flake generation

Truth.

The women and the men.