Ray E. and Beatrice (Abrams) Cohen

Ray E Cohen (1916 -- 2003) spent three years in a Japanese POW camp during WWII. Beatrice Cohen (then Abrams) was born in 1910 in Romania and immigrated to the United States in 1920. When the U.S. entered World War II, she took a job at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, California, where she worked as a real-life Rosie the Riveter. In 1943, turning down a 5-cent an hour pay raise at Douglas, she joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), which soon became the WAC. On “D-Day” June 6, 1944,. They met and married after the war.Friends in arms