They flooded factories and shipyards during World War II to build the planes, ships, and bombs needed to vanquish America's enemies.
Mae Krier of Levittown fought Hitler by building bombers. Next month, Congress will give her a medal for it., who will turn 98 next week, is an original “Rosie the Riveter,” a catchall term for the women who flooded factories and shipyards during World War II to build the planes, ships, and bombs needed to vanquish the Nazis and Japan. As it happens, Krier was an actual riveter.
To gain recognition for her sisters in armaments, Krier has been speaking to veterans groups and active-duty service members across the nation as a Rosie ambassador. Her message has been a simple one:“If we don’t get a medal soon,” she said, “all the Rosies will be gone.
“They came for the amber waves of grain they’d heard about,” she said. “But no one told them you freeze your butts off up there.” Maybe it was the muscular aircraft’s lines, or just how important it was, especially for the D-Day invasion. But theTo help build B-17s, she drove endless numbers of rivets into the plane’s metal sheathing for 93 cents an hour — half of what men got. She kept at it for two years, helping fill the skies with machines that saved the world.
Krier and her husband, Norm, had two children, four grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. Norm died at 93 in 2014 after nearly 70 years of marriage.The work of Krier and other Rosies serves to “introduce history to inspire the future,” said Sarah Pritchard, executive director of the, nonprofit partner of the Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif.
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