McDonough Honors Rosie The Riveter Georgette Feller

Assemblyman McDonough and Georgette Feller in front of one of the P-47 Thunderbolts on display at the American Air Power Museum at Republic Airport.

Assemblyman David G. McDonough (R,C,I-Merrick) honored women from across Long Island, who during World War II went to work in factories replacing the men who had been called into military service.

The women who became known as Rosie the Riveters, were immortalized by posters supporting the war effort, helping to recruit more than six million women to join the American war effort on the home front between December 1941 and early 1944. Rosie became a cultural and feminist icon and was the result of the most successful advertising recruitment in American history.

On Long Island, most of the Rosies worked for Republic Aviation in Farmingdale. Georgette Feller became a riveter at Republic Aviation where she worked on the P-47 Thunderbolt, attaching aluminum stringers in the section of the plane from the wheel well to the tail.