Local News | Women share their riveting history | Seattle Times Newspaper - a couple of great pics at the link. Like it was yesterday, the Rosies remember. The feel of white cotton coveralls. The squeeze of a hefty rivet gun. The pay — often more than they'd ever earned. The time was the 1940s. The world was at war and Boeing and other industries needed women to fill in for men who were away fighting for liberty. Whatever their motives — patriotism, adventure, the chance to get out of poverty — millions of women answered the call from small towns and cities nationwide...
They needs of war industry for labor knew few limits. With the ramping up of production, and the drain of male conscription, of course the solution was to tap the labor of women. That was a great boon to the Allies, that they could tap their labor for the war effort. In the Third Reich the social engineering of Adolf H. would not allow for the large-scale mobilization of female GERMAN labor for the war effort. They relied on the importation of foreigners and the forced labor of the damned. Even so they were slow to impliment full war production until late in 1944. This easily fits in with the pre-war planning. CIrca 1935 there was a high-level strategic planning meeting, attended by the cadre of top planners and NSDAP leadrs. They planned war production with the start dte for the war to be in 1943. But the Allies made it too easy and the launch date was advanced by years. One result was that the U-boat fleet was not nearly ready. Admiral Donitz had 300 boats the course of te war may well have been very diferent.
