The actual image of "Rosie the Riveter" appeared on a Norman Rockwell cover of a 1943 Saturday Evening Post. The "We Can Do It!" image, also featuring a strong working woman, was a poster by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse.
Iconic figure of the women who worked in defense industries during World War II, was a composite of the experiences of many real women, including Rose Bonavita, Rosalind P. Walter, Geraldine Hoff Doyle, and Rose Will Monroe.
More than six million female workers helped to build planes, bombs, tanks and other weapons that would eventually win WWII. They stepped up to the plate without hesitation and gave up their domestic jobs to accomplish things that only men had done before them
-Gabbi J
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