{"id":78380,"date":"2024-06-05T19:38:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T19:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/06\/05\/d-day-anniversary-shines-spotlight-on-rosies-who-built-wwii-weapons\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:55:25","slug":"d-day-anniversary-shines-spotlight-on-rosies-who-built-wwii-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/veterans\/military-history\/2024\/06\/05\/d-day-anniversary-shines-spotlight-on-rosies-who-built-wwii-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Day anniversary shines spotlight on \u2018Rosies\u2019 who built WWII weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PEGASUS BRIDGE, France \u2014 When the 5,000th B-17 bomber built after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/videos-1bbae699d45f41a794a5cf7a2dc29610\" target=\"_blank\">Pearl Harbor<\/a> rolled out of its Boeing factory, teenage riveter Anna Mae Krier made sure it would carry a message from the women of World War II: She signed her name on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now 98, and in Normandy, France, for this week\u2019s 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Krier is still proudly promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dday-normandy-80th-anniversary-women-368259471e91c906309abb21b915086f\" target=\"_blank\">the vital roles played by women<\/a> in the June 6, 1944, invasion and throughout the war \u2014 including by making weaponry that enabled men to fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Krier was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-war-ii-international-news-france-europe-bd08bfc199e34d7bb1cfb6addb0cd16d\" target=\"_blank\">among millions of women<\/a> who rolled up their sleeves in defense-industry factories, replacing men who volunteered and were called up for combat in the Pacific, Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The women had their own icon in \u201cRosie the Riveter,\u201d a woman in a polka-dotted bandanna flexing a muscular arm in a recruitment poster that declared: \u201cWe can do it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Japan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pearl-harbor-uss-arizona-survivor-lou-conter-e4fdc131104be724691c364177e55076\" target=\"_blank\">surprise attack on Pearl Harbor<\/a> that pitched the United States into war on Dec. 7, 1941, \u201cevery man, woman and child just went to work,\u201d Krier recalled Wednesday as she visited the site of an iconic D-Day battle, Pegasus Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The North Dakota native was 17 when she went to work in 1943 as a riveter on B-17 and B-29 bombers. She helped build more than 6,000 aircraft, according to her biography provided by the Best Defense Foundation, which brought her to Normandy for the anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUs women built all that equipment, the airplanes, the tanks, the ammunition\u201d and ships used in the Allied invasion of Normandy that helped liberate Europe from Adolf Hitler\u2019s tyranny, Krier said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She added, \u201cWe weren\u2019t doing it for honors and awards. We were doing it to save our country. And we ended up helping save the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women flew the planes that women built, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pioneering Women Airforce Service Pilots, known as WASPs, fulfilled an array of noncombat flight missions, including flying planes from factories on their way to the front, that freed male pilots for battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thirty-eight of the women were killed in wartime service. Long considered civilians, not members of the military, they weren\u2019t entitled to the pay and benefits men received. Only in 1977, after a long fight, did they get veteran status, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9pNwAGPyYzA\" target=\"_blank\">followed in 2010 with the Congressional Gold Medal<\/a>, the highest civilian honor given by Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women defense workers also received little notice or appreciation at first. Krier was among <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-california-3dd84e3ab1743682fac25c4c0cab710d\" target=\"_blank\">ex-\u201cRosies\u201d who pushed<\/a> successfully for their contribution to be recognized with a Congressional Gold Medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat made me so proud,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m just so proud of our young women. We opened doors for the young women today. But look what you women are doing. We\u2019re just so happy to see what you\u2019re doing with your lives. 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