CORNELIA FORT, second from left, was the second woman pilot whom Nancy Love accepted in September 1942 into the newly formed U.S. Army Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, the WAFS. On December 7, 1941, Cornelia was a civilian pilot instructor in the air over Honolulu when she came nose to nose with a Japanese Zero. Tragically, on March 21, 1943 while ferrying a BT-13, she was killed in a mid-air collision, the first woman pilot killed in service to her country. (Photo: Sarah Lawrence Archives) 

ROSIE: On Aug. 15, 2015, Elinor Otto, 95, an original “Rosie,” stands next to the newly dedicated Rosie the Riveter Memorial statue (left) at Marina Bay Park in Richmond, California. Elinor was a riveter during WWII and then returned to the job she loved in 1951. After riveting every C-17 delivered to the U.S. Air Force (USAF), she was laid off in 2014 at the age of 94 so she retired, setting the record for the longest working Rosie the Riveter! (Photo: Redwood Educational Technologies).