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Volume me 3, Edition 10
A ‘ Rosie the
Riveter’
103-year-old Leqve shares WWII experience working on B-17 bombers PHOTO BY AMY KYLLO
Helen Leqve stands Feb. 13 at her home in Kasson. Leqve served as a riveter on Boeing B-17 bombers during World War II.
BY AMY KYLLO | STAFF WRITER
KASSON — In 1941, HelPHOTO SUBMITTED en Leqve picked ppotatoes to earn Helen Leqve stands California to her bus pass to Ca around the time of her join the World W War II civilian high school graduation. war effort. Leqve picked potatoes to 103-year-old, like The 103-ye earn her bus pass to go to “Rosie the Rive Riveter,” worked California to work as an on B-17 bombers bombe during airplane riveter. WWII. Leqve lives on her own to this day, d assisted by daughter, Karen Tracy, her daugh “I enjoy doing it because I think lives close by. who liv people should know what went on,” ““There aren’t Leqve said. very many of us Leqve’s first role as a riveter came (female WWII riv(fe eters) left,” Leqve at the Lockheed-Vega aircraft plant in ete Burbank, California. There, she was in said. sai Now, 80 years charge of pounding rivets into the inner after the war, Leqve wing of Boeing B-17 bombers. She was afte given one week of training before being contin continues to tell her tale, visiting schools, Lions put out on the floor. societies alongside Clubs and historical soc Leqve page 2 Tracy.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
A “Rosie the Riveter” poster from the World War II era shows a woman flexing her arm. Helen Leqve originally planned on being a nurse but decided she could help more by becoming part of the war effort.
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