Leila Anderson Adams
b. March 24, 1921
worked at Warner Robbins Air Base in aircraft rebuilding facility; retired bank employee
"When Sewell opened up his clothing plant in Bowdon, all the women far and near that had never done anything exect just stay at home and farm, they all went swarming into Bowdon and got jobs...I think as far as teaching school, factory, department stores, I think all phases of life, women just mushroomed into holding down jobs. It wasn't no stay-at-home mom job for all of em...you just felt like you were somebody."
"Me and a friend...got a job at Warner Robbins doing defense work. It was a patriotic thing to do, and everybody was wanting to do what they could...Planes would be brought there that had been damaged during battle and we'd make the parts that we needed to repair those planes and get them back in the air as soon as we could...I was one of the first two of the ladies that moved up to a junior mechanic rating...It sure put the women in the work force."
"Well it wadnt' (sic) uh a clean job, and it was rough on hands an' all, but just bein' patriotic made you forget the dirty work an' I said if I couldn' build an air, helpin' win the war, I could help at home so, bein' dirty or long hours never crossed my mind, I just wanted to do it an' help get it over with."