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On 24 October 2015, the Yankee Air Museum hosted a Rosie the Riveter Guinness Book of World Records event that saw 2096 women and girls assemble at historic Willow Run airport in Ypsilanti Michigan. Forty-four World War Two Rosie the Riveters were in attendance to help break the record. Females from over forty states and Canada dressed as the Rosie The Riveter poster girl in dark blue work clothes, red socks, work boots and the iconic red bandanna with white polka dots. To break the record, previously set by the Rockin Rosies in California at 1,084, the girls had to stay assembled in the hangar for 5 minutes. During the time they sang the National Anthem and God Bless America.
The event helped raise awareness and funds for the “Save the Willow Run Bomber Plant”. The Yankee Air Force Museum, formed in 1981 at Willow Run, along with the Michigan Aerospace Foundation spearheaded the campaign to save a section of the Ford plant at Willow Run Airport which turned out one Consolidated B-24 Liberator an hour during the height of WWII production. On 30 October 2014, documents were signed and the final section of the mile long bomber plant was saved and will now become the home of the National Museum of Aviation and Technology. Much work has been performed already; the inside of the plant has been cleaned up and the north wall has been built and is awaiting hangar doors. Once the outside building work is complete the interior will be brought up to museum status. Where possible most of the original interior will be kept intact and restored.
During World War Two the need for men on the war fronts was so great government and industrial leaders looked to women to fill industrial and military jobs that were traditionally filled by men. Between 1940 and 1945 women in the workforce grew from 27% to over 37%. Six million females were put to work on the home front during the war years. The popular “We Can Do It” poster was created in 1942 when Westinghouse Power Company commissioned J. Howard Miller to create a poster that would boost moral among the employees. That image has become a cultural icon that not only represents all the women who contributed to the Allied Victory in WWII but is a symbol of the modern feminist movement.
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