Some 80 years after their wartime efforts, real-life Rosie the Riveters are receiving the nation's highest civilian honor from Congress. John Yang has their story. Rosie the Riveter is known as a ...

and head wrapped in a red and white bandana. Norman Rockwell’s famous painting of a Rosie was on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1943. "Rosies" cheer during the Rosie the Riveter ...

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 ...

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. During the war, she was one ...

Staff and museum visitors line a plaza, waving American flags and cheering as the women arrive, adorned in the red and white polka ... under the moniker 'Rosie the Riveter'. Tucker says they ...