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Real life Rosie the Riveters meet in Gulf Breeze

| Hansen Hasenberg

A few years ago, Navarre Press interviewed the now-102-year-old Thelma Taylor, one of the last Rosie the Riveter girls of the World War II era. Now, she has met her match.

Fellow Rosie the Riveter Delphine Klaput, 101, was in Northwest Florida the weekend of Sept. 19 to meet Taylor, speak at American Legion Post 235 in Fort Walton Beach and visit the National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola.

Delphine Klaput and Thelma Taylor visit in Gulf Breeze. The two women were part of the more than six million women in the workforce during World War II. They worked on airplanes for the military.

 

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