Willow Run from serial liberator Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 3 min 14 sec
✓ Published: 11-Dec-2020

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Because so many men were overseas fighting, the factories which produced the tanks and planes and the guns and ammo were staffed mostly by women. My mother, Ruth Sexton Skinner, was part of that aspect of the war effort, a “Rosie the Riveter.” After she graduated from high school, she left her small hometown of Dover, Tennessee and took a bus to Detroit to work in a factory. I had always known that the factory where she worked was associated with the automotive industry. I also knew that “