I WAS GOING TO SAY IT SOUNDS GREAT OVER THERE. YEAH. OKAY, SO AS SHE PREPARES TO TURN 100 YEARS OLD, SUSAN KING IS LOOKING BACK AT A LIFE WHERE SHE MADE HISTORY AND HELPED WITH EFFORTS FOR WORLD WAR TWO. WAR STARTED JUST MONTHS AFTER KING GRADUATED FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS HIGH SCHOOL HERE IN BALTIMORE, AND IT WASN’T LONG BEFORE KING DECIDED TO TAKE ON A JOB AS A ROSIE THE RIVETER. SHE WORKED FOR EASTERN AIRCRAFT TO HELP ASSEMBLE PLANE PARTS. I FELT THAT I WAS MAKING MONEY BECAUSE I WANTED TO GO TO COLLEGE, DON’T WANT TO SAVE SOME MONEY. I ALSO WAS HOPING THAT THE WAR WOULD SOON BE OVER, BECAUSE I DIDN’T WANT TO HEAR ANY MORE AMERICANS BEING KILLED BY THE GERMANS. LATER IN LIFE, KING WENT TO COLLEGE AND EARNED A BACHELOR’S AND MASTER’S DEGREE FROM MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY.
Woman who worked as a 'Rosie the Riveter' during World War II celebrates 100th birthday
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Updated: 9:21 PM CDT Jun 19, 2024
As Susan King turns 100, she reflected upon a life in which she made history in World War II.The war started just months after King graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, and it wasn't long before she decided to take on a job as a "Rosie the Riveter."She worked for Eastern Aircraft to assemble plane parts."I was making money because I wanted to go to college, I wanted to save some money. I also was hoping that the war would soon be over because I didn't want to hear any more Americans being killed by the Germans," King told sister station WBAL 11 News.Later in life, King went to college and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Morgan State University.She went on to become a teacher and guidance counselor for Baltimore City Public Schools.See more in the video player above.
BALTIMORE — As Susan King turns 100, she reflected upon a life in which she made history in World War II.
The war started just months after King graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, and it wasn't long before she decided to take on a job as a "Rosie the Riveter."
She worked for Eastern Aircraft to assemble plane parts.
"I was making money because I wanted to go to college, I wanted to save some money. I also was hoping that the war would soon be over because I didn't want to hear any more Americans being killed by the Germans," King told sister station WBAL 11 News.
Later in life, King went to college and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Morgan State University.
She went on to become a teacher and guidance counselor for Baltimore City Public Schools.
See more in the video player above.
![Finland Estonia WWII Missing Plane](https://kubrick.htvapps.com/htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/images/ap2666e4d8b71e26.jpg?crop=1.00xw:0.847xh;0,0.0480xh&resize=136:* "The Junkers Ju 52 aircraft "Kaleva" by the Finnish airline Aero is parked at Helsinki's Malmi Airport in this 1939 photo. With U.S. and French diplomatic couriers aboard, the civilian plane was shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet bombers on June 14, 1940 just days before Moscow annexed the three Baltic states. The mysterious case which claimed the lives of nine people is being solved after 84 years as an Estonian diving group has located the aircraft's wreckage off a tiny island close to Tallinn. (Finnish Aviation Museum via AP)")