Connie Palacioz is a 100-year-old volunteer at the B-29 Doc Hangar Museum in Wichita, Kansas. The centenarian is one of the original, and few remaining, Rosie the Riveters.

During wartime, women entered the workforce, with many recruited to assemble airplanes for the war. Palacioz was one of them.

The National World War Two Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American ...

During World War II, nearly 6 million women joined together to help the war effort. The group was represented by the iconic ...

Saturday marked a special return for a local woman with a long history. Fairport’s own “Rosie the Riveter” was recently ...

Thursday, the Dutch Embassy honored her as one of the “Rosies.” Rosie the Riveter was a cultural icon representing women who ...

For the 21-year-old, then serving in Rockford as a Rosie the Riveter — one of thousands of women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II to support the U.S. war effort — it ...

By Kathy Chouteau In 1942, after spotting a Department of Defense advertisement recruiting workers, Omezelle Gipson boarded a ...

Connie Palacioz is Wichita’s own “Rosie the Riveter,” for volunteering at the B-29 Doc hangar during the war. “When visitors come and they ask us, and then I tell them that I worked there ...