Well you learn something every day.
Did you know that the real "Rosie the Riveter" was from Michigan? Geraldine Doyle was born in Inkster, MI on July 31, 1924. Her name then Geraldine Hoff, she was a high school graduate, living near Ann Arbor during the summer of 1942. She decided she would support the war effort by taking a factory job at American Broach and Machine Co. in Ann Arbor, where she operated a metal-stamping press.