These two women are doing their bit for Uncle Sam on September 17, 1942. They are Mrs. Jane Shelby, in blue jeans, and Mrs. Wanda Beasley, at the wheel, a cook to a Denver socialite. They are two of the 109 women and girls employed at Lowery Field as drivers for equipment-hauling trucks.
Truck drivers--Colorado--Denver Women employees--Colorado--Denver World War, 1939-1945 War work Denver (Colo.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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