Annabella Morgan rode the train from New Orleans to Seattle shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941—she was headed to the Boeing plant on Marginal Way for a new job and a good paycheck. The 20-year-old had a good supply of food and “a large bottle of sarsaparilla” to see her through the five-day train ride across the country. Once in Seattle, Morgan wasted no time getting hired by Boeing as a “rivet bucker” for B-17s, a job that had her holding a flat bar on one side of the fuselage to catch the rivets. Morgan says, “It didn’t take me long to learn!” and adds that she was the best bucker in the plant, which placed her in high demand with the riveters. Soon she was promoted to riveter, with a pay increase from 99 cents to $1.29 an hour. She remembers the factory shutting down when the air raid sirens blew. But most of all, this Rosie with an intrepid spirit remembers that “people clapped and cheered” on August 15, 1945, when President Harry Truman was heard over the loudspeaker announcing that the war was over. Her job at Boeing ended shortly after that.