{"id":77316,"date":"2018-01-23T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77316"},"modified":"2018-01-23T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T15:12:58","slug":"naomi-parker-fraley-another-real-rosie-the-riveter-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77316","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Parker Fraley; another ‘real’ Rosie the Riveter passes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HMC Ret sends us the sad news<\/a> that Naomi Parker Fraley has passed at the age of 96. She is believed by some historians to be the original “Rosie the Riveter” of World War II motivational posters. That’s her in the picture above during those years when she worked in a Navy machine shop. The original caption read \u201cPretty Naomi Parker looks like she might catch her nose in the turret lathe she is operating\u201d;<\/p>\n

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the 20-year-old Naomi and her 18-year-old sister, Ada, went to work at the Naval Air Station in Alameda. They were assigned to the machine shop, where their duties included drilling, patching airplane wings and, fittingly, riveting.<\/p>\n

It was there that the Acme photographer captured Naomi Parker, her hair tied in a bandanna for safety, at her lathe. She clipped the photo from the newspaper and kept it for decades.<\/p>\n

After the war, she worked as a waitress at the Doll House, a restaurant in Palm Springs, Calif., popular with Hollywood stars. She married and had a family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article discusses all of the “real” Rosie the Riveters. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want fame or fortune,\u201d Mrs. Fraley told People magazine in 2016, when her connection to Rosie first became public. \u201cBut I did want my own identity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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