Women Riveting Tail Cones, Willow Run Bomber Plant, June 1944

Women Riveting Tail Cones, Willow Run Bomber Plant, June 1944

Ford Motor Company. Engineering Photographic Department

United States, Michigan, Charter Township of Ypsilanti
Photographic prints
Photographs
Interior views
Airplane factories
B-24 (Bomber)
Defense industries
Women
Women employees
World War, 1939-1945
Riveting
Ford Motor Company. Willow Run Bomber Plant

Women represented approximately one third of the workers at Ford Motor Company's Willow Run plant during World War II. Women did everything from clerical work in the offices to riveting and welding on the assembly line. Labor shortages made women essential to war industries, and the government actively recruited them to join the workforce.

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Karsten Farris

22 June 1944

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