Checking on that great Shorpy.com site for all those great photos, I saw one on big interest to me from the Feb. 8, 2011 picture titles "Dot and Syl: 1942.
This is a great shot of two Rosie the Riveters making the weapons needed to win World War II. The picture was taken in July 1942 and the caption reads: "Production of aircraft engines at Melrose Park Buick plant near Chicago. Hundreds of gears pass through the expert hands of Dorothy Miller and Sylvia Dreiser during their eight-hour working day in a large Midwest aircraft plant. Inspection of these vital cogs in America's war machine is a delicate task and one which requires infinite patience and precision."
The photo was by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information.
Sylvia Dreiser was wearing a small "V" pin on one side of her war clothes. The other had pins showing crossed swords and one that appears to be for the Army Air Corps. There was also a button, but I couldn't see what it said.
This Is 100% War Effort on the Home Front. --Cooter
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