Real-life Rosie the Riveter visits Museum of Flight's Restoration Center
The Goodyear F2G-1 Super Corsair was an airplane she helped build
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Last updated 7/16/2021 at 10:56am
Beacon photo by David Pan
Helen Mary Vaudrin visits the Museum of Flight's Restoration Center Wednesday, June 23. Vaudrin was a real-life Rosie the Riveter, who helped make airplanes during World War II. She stopped by to take a look the museum's Goodyear F2G-1 Super Corsair, an airplane she helped build.
A real-life Rosie the Riveter visits Museum of Flight's Restoration Center
The Museum of Flight's Restoration Center had a special visitor recently.
Helen Mary Vaudrin, a Monroe resident who turned 100 last December, was a real-life Rosie the Riveter at the Goodyear Aircraft plan in Akron, Ohio, during World War II. She helped make F4U Corsairs and the late war-Goodyear F2G-1 Super Corsair during her career.
A few years ago, Vaudrin visited the Museum of Flight's with her grandson John Stefanov and was reunited with the museum's F4U Corsair made at that plant. She had never seen once sinc...
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