WW I trailblazers undertold Women Ordnance Workers story

Given the ubiquity of Norman Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter, it’s not hard to see why some Quad Citians today think women didn’t become Rock Island Arsenal “Soldiers of Supply” until World War II.

But it’s impossible to tell the full story of the impact that more than a century of women defense workers’ had on Arsenal Island, the Quad Cities, the nation and the world without…