Geraldine Doyle 86 dies onetime factory worker inspired Rosie the Riveter and We Can Do It poster

Geraldine Doyle, 86, who as a 17-year-old factory worker became the inspiration for a popular World War II recruitment poster that evoked female power and independence under the slogan "We Can Do It!," died Dec. 26 at a hospice in Lansing, Mich.

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