Rosie the Riveters Record
Guinness World Records has officially recognized a Michigan gathering of “Rosie the Riveters” last year as the largest ever recorded… Yankee Air Museum this week announced the record certification for the Oct….
Film maker Rosie Newman threads a projector before screening her film ‘Britain Through The War’, in aid of the Victoria League charity, at the Dorchester Hotel, London, 10th June 1948. Newman’s film is the only full-length colour film made of Britain in wartime. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Credit: Keystone / GettyimagesGuinness World Records has officially recognized a Michigan gathering of "Rosie the Riveters" last year as the largest ever recorded...
Yankee Air Museum this week announced the record certification for the Oct. 14, 2017 event at the Eastern Michigan University Convocation Center in Ypsilanti, where 3,734 people dressed up as Rosie the Riveter, including 57 original World War II Rosies.
The gathering was intended to support the museum's effort to preserve a World War II-era factory.
The site will become the new home to the Yankee Air Museum once it is renovated.
The youngest Rosie at the Oct. 14 event was six months old and the oldest was 110.
Rosie the Riveter was a war-era patriotic symbol, seen in posters wearing a bandanna and flexing her muscles under the slogan: "We can do it!"
The character was inspired by Michigan native Rose Will Monroe, one of thousands of women who worked at the Willow Run plant producing B-24 bombers during World War II.
