Whoever gave Louis Lee an inexpensive camera didn’t know he’d become obsessed with photography and develop essential skills needed by the Vancouver Kaiser Shipyard. After the Japanese bombed Pearl ...
During World War II, women transformed the workforce at Vancouver’s Kaiser Shipyards. Their numbers grew from fewer than 300 office employees in early 1942 to more than 30,000 workers by late 1944. Ta ...
Six of the original "Rosie the Riveters" who worked in Kaiser Shipyard during World War II gained a little more recognition Monday after being welcomed to the White House by U.S. Vice President Joe ...
RICHMOND — Dozens of well-wishers turned the S.S. Red Oak Victory, a floating World War II museum in Richmond’s historic Kaiser Shipyard, into a party on Jan. 31, celebrating the 100 years of life ...
In her riveting new novel titled "Shipyard Gals," Valerie Stoller has written about World War II from an unusually eye-opening point of view. The book is set in the Bay Area at the height of the war, ...