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.
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Lila Tomek was 19 years old in 1942 when she left an office job in Pawnee City to work at the Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant near Omaha. This is her engagement photo.
Lila Westerman, a 19-year-old from the Pawnee County hamlet of Du Bois, Nebraska, desperately wanted to join them.
The idea of a young woman from rural Nebraska going off to war shocked her parents and her high school-age brothers, who would later fight overseas themselves.
Lila, though, was determined to serve. So she answered an ad and applied for a job building warplanes at the new Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant, at Offutt Field near Bellevue.
“She was a small-town girl. She was scared to come to Omaha,” said her daughter, Nancy Wilcher of Humboldt, Nebraska.
But Lila swallowed her fears and ventured to the big city, joining a nationwide army of 6 million women who took jobs in war production plants across the country. Collectively, they came to be known as “Rosie the Riveter,” after a song that was popular in 1942.
In April of this year, Lila Westerman Tomek was one of 27 surviving “Rosies” who visited Washington, D.C., to receive the Congressional Gold Medal on behalf of all the female war workers from World War II.
“It was the thrill of a lifetime,” said Wilcher, who accompanied her mother on the trip.
Tomek died June 24 at her home in Humboldt, 85 miles south of Omaha. She was 101.
‘Don’t tell your parents, your co-workers, no one’
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Tomek
Lila Westerman Tomek was born March 3, 1923, and grew up on a farm not far from the Kansas border, the second oldest of four children of Fred and Emma Westerman.
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.
Martin recruited heavily around the Midwest. Since so many men had already joined the armed forces, the company needed people who hadn’t worked in factories before — including women, who ultimately made up 40% of the plant’s workforce.
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The Bomberettes were the first-place winners in the second shift B-29 Specials Thursday Morning Bowling League in 1945. Members, from left, were Millie McMillan, Lila Westerman, Mabel Peterson, Julia Slato and Lois Bryson.
If a woman could sew, she could rivet, the ads said. If she could put together a pie, she could work on an assembly line.
Tomek could certainly do those things. She completed a metalworking and blueprinting course at Omaha Technical High School before her first day at the Martin plant Oct. 3, 1942, where she earned 60 cents an hour.
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.
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Lila Tomek was working at the Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant in Bellevue on April 26, 1943, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited. Flanked by Secret Service agents in this photo, he inspects B-26 Marauders, planes that saw action in both Europe and the Pacific. Roosevelt was accompanied by Nebraska Gov. Dwight Griswold (back seat, left), Glenn Martin (middle), and plant manager G.T. Wiley.
To the end of her life, Tomek remembered the day in April 1943 when a loud whistle drew the attention of plant workers to one side of the factory. A large door opened and a convertible entered. It carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt, along with Nebraska Gov. Dwight Griswold and manufacturer Glenn L. Martin.
“They were awestruck, of course,” Wilcher said.
She also recalled the day a few months later when a B-25 on a test flight crashed through the roof into one of the B-26 assembly lines, killing three of the four crew members. Luckily, the Martin workers were on a lunch break, and none were injured in the inferno that followed.
Tomek said she was part of a small group of workers selected to make special modifications to the bomb compartments several of the B-29s, and sworn to secrecy about what they were doing.
“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.”
Only later did Tomek and the other workers learn that the modifications allowed some of the planes to carry the atomic bomb, part of a top secret plan code-named Silverplate.
A part of history
Tomek was dismissed along with the other female workers when the war ended. But she loved the freedom — and the financial independence — that working gave her. So after the war, she went to work at Mutual of Omaha.
“She always liked to make her own money,” Wilcher said.
In 1947, Lila married Rudy Tomek, who was from Pawnee County and a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in a double wedding ceremony with her brother, Lyle.
After Rudy’s graduation from UNL, the couple took jobs at the Hormel packing company in Austin, Minnesota. They worked for the company in Fremont before moving to the Tomek family farm in Table Rock, Nebraska.
In 1960, they moved to Cozad, where Rudy managed the O.A. Cooper Co. feed mill, and Lila was a legal secretary. They moved to Humboldt in 1972.
In retirement, the couple was active in Rotary International and the United Methodist Church.
Lila also participated in bridge and book clubs, and she enjoyed cooking, sewing, quilting and hand-painting China. She volunteered with the PEO Sisterhood, a philanthropic organization that encourages education and scholarship for women.
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Lila Tomek, third from left in the front row, visited the White House with other "Rosie the Riveters" and military escorts in April for the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to women wartime defense workers.
Wilcher learned late last year about the plans to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the wartime “Rosies,” and she encouraged her mother to sign up for the trip.
At first, Tomek was reluctant.
“She felt uncomfortable that she was going to get all this praise and adulation and attention when so many other women had also done the work,” Wilcher said.
But her family encouraged her to go.
“I said, ‘Mom, this is history,’” Wilcher said. “‘Perhaps you’ve lived this long because you have a chance to represent the six million women who worked during the war.’”
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Lila Westerman Tomek, 101, poses in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room where President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his famous “Fireside Chats” during World War II. With her are her daughter, Nancy Wilcher, right; grandson Avery Tomek, center; and Amy Tang, Avery’s fiancee.
At the event, Tomek and the other Rosies met Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who presented the award, and visited the White House.
“When she got there, she loved it,” Wilcher said.
Lila Tomek is survived by her daughter, Nancy, and her son, Jim Tomek, and three grandsons. Her husband, Rudy, died in 1994. Twin sons died in infancy in 1951.
A private graveside ceremony at the Pawnee City Cemetery is planned later.
Photos: Offutt Air Force Base air shows through the years
2018
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A P-38 Lightning, top, F-22 Raptor, middle and the F-35 Lightning perform their Air Force Heritage Flight during the Defenders of Freedom Air & Space Show at Offutt Air Force Base in 2018.
2018
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Pilot Greg Shelton performs in his FM-2 Wildcat during the Defenders of Freedom Air & Space Show at Offutt Air Force Base in 2018.
2010
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Kyle Franklin flies a Waco aerobatic airplane with his wife Amanda Younkin-Franklin standing on top of the wing during loops and rolls as they performed at the Defenders of Freedom Open House and Air Show at Offutt Air Force Base in 2010.
2010
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A Japanese Zero is chased by the P-51D 'Gunfighter' based out of Cpuncil Bluffs at the Defenders of Freedom Open House and Air Show at Offutt Air Force Base in 2010.
2010
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The Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team performed at the Defenders of Freedom Open House and Air Show at Offutt Air Force Base in 2010.
2010
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Two F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets pass close by each other during the show. The Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team performed at the Defenders of Freedom Open House and Air Show at Offutt Air Force Base in 2010.
2004
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A Japanese "Zero" is "shot down" by a P-51 Mustang at the Offutt airshow in 2004.
2001
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At the 2001 Offutt International Airshow and Open House a C-17 transport circles the airfield showing how tight a turn it can make for such a large aircraft. It can also take off and land on a short runway
2001
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At the Offutt International Airshow and Open House the Warbirds fly over in 2001.
1999
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Offutt air show goers rest in the shade of a C-5 Galaxy in 1999.