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<br /> r<br /> b<br /> a<br /> e<br /> t<br /> l<br /> i<br /> e<br /> n<br /> c<br /> g<br /> Rosie The Riveter | 2022 | Volume 49 | Number 9<br /> WOMEN IN THE WAR<br /> WE CAN’T WIN WITHOUT THEM<br /> EDITOR<br /> Leah Block<br /> ASSISTANT EDITOR<br /> Jeannette Gutierrez<br /> CORRESPONDENTS<br /> Libby Belcher Hank Coates<br /> Jeannette Gutierrez<br /> ART<br /> Farrah Underwood, Designer<br /> PRINTER<br /> Knight Abbey<br /> COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE<br /> Physical Address:<br /> CAF National Headquarters<br /> 5661 Mariner Dr. Dallas, TX 75237<br /> Mailing Address:<br /> CAF National Headquarters<br /> P.O. Box 764769 Dallas, TX 75376<br /> (877) 767-7175<br /> info@cafhq.org<br /> www.CommmemorativeAirForce.org<br /> THE DISPATCH<br /> DIGITAL DISPATCH<br /> This and past issues of The Dispatch are available on the “Members<br /> Only” section of the Commemorative Air Force website.<br /> ©2022 by the Commemorative Air Force. All ri<a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=1"> r b a e t l i e n c g Rosie The Rivete</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=2"> EDITOR Leah Block ASSISTANT EDITOR Jeannette Gut</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=3"> CONTENTS COLUMNS FEATURES 46 FLI</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=4"> H C enry “Hank” Coates AF President/CEO FLIGHT</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=5"> OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE OF THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FOR</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=6"> 6 Irma Lee McElroy, a civil service employee at </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=7"> R osie’s story takes place in the conte</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=8"> Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=9"> IMAGE SOURCE: AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION. NURSIN</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=10"> 10 A woman uses a hand drill at Vultee Aircraft </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=11"> to polls taken at the time, the majority of women</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=12"> “ h ”C nD I ! W m ni “Ro</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=13"> At the Ford Motor Company Plant, one B-24 Libe</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=14"> 14 MORE FROM ROSIE, IN HER OWN WORDS </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=15"> Dr. Frances Tunnell Carter, founder of the Americ</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=16"> 16 Dr. Fran Carter, left, and her husband John, </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=17"> discipline, focus, attention to detail, and hard </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=18"> 18 SIX WAYS WOMEN CONTRIBUTED TO </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=19"> R AT I O N E D G O O D S PHOTOS FROM FACEBOOK CO</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=20"> 20 PEGGY HOOD - A ROSIE’S LETTERS HOME In 1942,</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=21"> Letters and Photo courtesy of the Barron and Hood</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=22"> 22 A Rosie from North American Aviation Plant, </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=23"> GONE WEST As of July 2022 John Basch . . . . . .</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=24"> SECOND ANNUAL 02.25.23 AT SIX-THIRTY IN T</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=25"> </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=26"> WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS CAF COLONELS name </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=27"> WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS AS OF JULY 2022 PRESE</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, September 2022 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b8e1f838?page=28"> P.O. Box 764769 Dallas, Texas 75376 </a>