Lt. Gen. Robert C. Hinson, would monitor the unprecedented clearing of U.S. airspace of 3,000 aircraft, watching for signs of undetected hijackings. They would personally brief President George W. Bush on the events of the day during the commander in chief’s short-notice visit to Offutt.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor pulled the United States abruptly into World War II, young men by the tens of thousands rushed to military recruiters to enlist and join the fight.
“She was a small-town girl. She was scared to come to Omaha,” said her daughter, Nancy Wilcher of Humboldt, Nebraska. She graduated from Pawnee City High School in 1940 and attended business school in Lincoln. She had been working at an office job in Pawnee City before she responded to an ad seeking workers for Martin’s Offutt plant.
During nearly three years at Martin, Tomek worked at several production jobs. She spliced wires for B-26 Marauders and, after the plant switched to production of the B-29 Superfortress, became a riveter — paired with a woman from Verdigre, Nebraska, named Rosie. “They were told, ‘Don’t tell your parents, your co-workers, no one,’’’ Wilcher said. “They were working seven days a week, 12 or more hours a day.”
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