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Dorothy Doughit Petroni

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Bomb Taper, 1942-1945 Cornhusker Ordnance Plant; Grand Island, NE Dorothy "Dottie" Doughit graduated from high school in Grand Island, Nebraska, in 1942. Though she intended to go to college, a friend told her that she was needed in the local bomb factory. She asked her father for his advice, & he reminded her that she had 2 brothers in the war. For the remaining 3 years of the war, she taped bombs after they were stuffed & capped so that the caps wouldn't come off prematurely. After the war she came to the Bay Area to visit her sister where she met & married Nino Petroni. Nino became a teacher & principal in the Richmond schools, & Dottie ran the lunch counter in the Richmond Montgomery Ward store.

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Rosie the Riveter Trust and NPS Collection. Original Images donated from family, participants and others.

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Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park, Code: RORI

Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park, Contra Costa County, California
Latitude: 37.9086990356445, Longitude: -122.366996765137

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