Championship Riveters, April 22, 1943
Martha Myskowski, on right, and Betty Relli were members of Port Washington's championship riveting team. They hold the crowd spellbound as they bang their way to a new record of 19.2 rivets per minute. The contest was held at the
Female Grumman Aviator
Women were not only riveters. They also flew the planes! Photo from the Grumman Corporation Archives.
Grumman Employees Work on a Bomber, 1943
Women work on the fuselage of a Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber at Grumman Plant #15, located in Port Washington. For more information about this aircraft, click here. From the book Flight of Memory, published by the Port Washington Public Library: The