2 of my Grandparents (Grandfather on one side and Grandmother on another side) worked at the Ford Willow run plant here in Michigan that made the famous B-24 Liberator in WWII
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My grandmother (Dads side) was a riveter. My Grandfather (moms side) was a machinist. He and his sister (riveter) came up here from Kentucky to work for Ford Motor knowing Henry Ford was paying $5 a day.said it was better than the pay in the coal mines at the time. He was 18-19 then. Left my mom, her sister (infants at the time) and granny in KY, and would visit them once a month on a 3 day shift leave. He later moved them up here in 45’ and lived the rest of there lives. He also opened a very famous hardware store to this day in Ann Arbor Mi . He was in training at Willow run making planes for the Africa cops and in Great Britain when the japs bombed Pearl Harbor, wanting to go sign up he was told to stay cuz his mechanics was too valuable for the aircraft being made. So he was there the remainder of the war.Thank you for sharing this
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Women were some of the best stick weldors in naval ship yards during WWII due to their attention to detail for long hours.
And they were preferred for some specialized brazing techniques in the WWII aircraft industry.
From the Apollo days onward, they use older ladies who sew the multi layer custom space suit gloves and parachutes. Again, for their attention to detail and uniformity in stitching and they knew the consequences of poor quality work results.
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