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

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.

Turning 100 years old is not the only milestone for Connie Palacioz, Wichita’s own “Rosie the Riveter.” Volunteering at the B ...

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 ...