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‘Making history, working for victory’: Local Rosie the Riveter to be honored on D-Day anniversary

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Rosie the Riveter, Jeanne Gibson, 98, looks on from her apartment in Pinole, Calif., on Friday, May 24, 2023. Gibson, along with 60-70 World War II veterans, are going on a trip to Paris and Normandy as part of the Old Glory Honor Flight during the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. Gibson still works at the Rosie the Riveter Museum in Richmond. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

PINOLE — Feeling she wasn’t giving enough to the war effort after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Jeanne Gibson — at the time only 18 years old — traded her nursing school life in Minnesota for a welding job in the shipyards of Seattle. Now 98, Pinole resident Gibson will be one of about 70 […]


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