One might call Florence DiTullio Joyce the first lady of Fore River Shipyard. “I was the first woman to fill out an application, to be interviewed, and to be hired,” Joyce said last week as she recalled the early days of 1941.
She and several others were hired early in the war years, before women were [...]
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‘Winnie the Welder’ Recalls Shipyard Days
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