Have you ever wondered just what exactly “Rosie the Riveter” did for the war effort? This fictional wartime heroine based on hundreds of women throughout the United States helped to build airplanes by shooting rivets into metal plates with a gun. She worked as a team with another woman called the bucker. The bucker flattened or smoothed out the rivets on the other side. According to one real-life female defense worker, the job of riveting took more skill, but the job of bucki