The B-29 DOC Hangar, Education and Visitors Center is hosting a public celebration of life and memorial for Connie Palacioz.

In 1943, Connie Palacioz was a teenager working at a Newton laundry when she joined Boeing to help the war effort as a ...

Palacioz worked on the B-29 production line from 1943 to 1945 and spent decades sharing stories of women in wartime ...

The Wichita community is mourning the loss of Connie Palacioz, a B-29 Superfortress and World War II-era “Rosie the Riveter” ...

Connie Palacioz joined the war effort in Kansas as a teenager and dedicated her life to advocating for the thousands of women ...

Palacioz often reflected on her role in the wartime effort while speaking with visitors to the aircraft.

Rosie the Riveter is one of the most famous symbols of the feminist movement, but it took years to accurately identify the worker who inspired the iconic image of a woman flexing her bicep. For three ...

Every March 21, we celebrate Rosie the Riveter, the cultural icon who symbolized strength, skill, and female labor powering American industry during wartime. If you want to see what Rosie looks like ...

National Rosie the Riveter Day honors the millions of women who stepped into industrial jobs and defense industries during World War II, transforming the American workforce and redefining women's ...

Rosalaind P. Walter, the woman who inspired the character "Rosie the Riveter," died Wednesday at the age of 95. According to NBC News, Walter, then 19, took a job at the Sikorsky aircraft plant in ...