30+ Surviving 'Rosies' Honored at WWII Museum on D-Day Anniversary

On the eighty-second anniversary of D-Day, more than thirty surviving women who once built the machinery of Allied victory gathered in New Orleans to receive long-overdue recognition for work that helped turn the tide of history. These were the Rosies — women who entered American factories during World War II not as symbols, but as workers, learning to weld and rivet and assemble bombers while the world burned around them. Their honoring at The National WWII Museum is less a celebration than a reckoning: a society pausing, at the last possible moment, to acknowledge what women made possible be