October 12, 2010

Women Ordnance Workers (WOWs) during World War II, wearing the trademark WOW bandanna, pose with an American flag at the Arkansas Ordnance Plant in Jacksonville (Pulaski County). Approximately 8,300 women were employed at the plant, representing sixty-five percent of its 12,700 workers.

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