Connie Palacioz is a 100-year-old volunteer at the B-29 Doc Hangar Museum in Wichita, Kansas. The centenarian is one of the original, and few remaining, Rosie the Riveters.

During wartime, women entered the workforce, with many recruited to assemble airplanes for the war. Palacioz was one of them.

During World War II, nearly 6 million women joined together to help the war effort. The group was represented by the iconic ...

The National World War II Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American ...

Turning 100 years old is not the only milestone for Connie Palacioz, Wichita’s own “Rosie the Riveter.” Volunteering at the B ...

The event was put on by the Gary Sinise Foundation in partnership with the museum and Rosie the Riveter Trust. "During the (Second World) War, millions of women like you stepped into roles ...

By Kathy Chouteau In 1942, after spotting a Department of Defense advertisement recruiting workers, Omezelle Gipson boarded a ...

Connie Palacioz is Wichita’s own “Rosie the Riveter,” for volunteering at the B-29 Doc hangar during the war. “When visitors come and they ask us, and then I tell them that I worked there ...