Description
Josephine Wikelund was born in 1922 and raised in Independence, Kansas. During World War II she worked for the Boeing Company in Wichita as a riveter and later as a liaison clerk transporting blueprints. Ms. Wikelund saw the transition from B-17s to B-29s during her time at Boeing, and gives a first-hand account of relations between the sexes as women entered the paid workforce during the war.