Hello, my name is Frances Tunnell Carter.
I live in Birmingham, Alabama, and during
the war I was a 21-year-old lady who was
planning to be a school teacher.
But the war came on and I wanted to do more
to help win the war.
So I came to Birmingham and got a job at the
plant, Bechtel-McCone-Parsons
Airplane Modification Center. I worked as a riveter on B-29s.
It was work that I had never done before,
none of us had, but we were trying to get
the war over and get the boys home so we could
get on with our lives.
I knew that if I had been a boy I would already
have been drafted, so I wanted to do my part, too.
And you know what, everybody wanted to help
the country.
