Peggy Floerchinger Interviews, 2001-2002.

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Peggy Floerchinger Interviews, 2001-2002.

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In this interview Margaret "Peggy" Floerchinger discusses the evacuation of children from her home town of Liverpool during World War II; experiences during bombings of Liverpool; meeting and dating her future husband, Tom Floerchinger who was part of the post-war service force in England; their wedding; bureaucratic proceedures she had to go through prior to leaving Britain; travel to the U.S. on the SS Henry Gibbon with her new husband and other newly married couples; traveling by bus to Montana; meeting her new family in Conrad; being homesick; adjustments to new life in farming; and trips made to England over the years. (OH 1942)

2 Cassette tape(s)(1 hour, 30 minutes) Analog Transcript 23 p

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Montana War Brides Oral History Project

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In the summer of 2001 the Montana Historical Society Archives began work on the Montana War Brides Oral History Project. The project focused on the experiences of women who came to Montana as the result of marriage to a U.S. soldier. War Brides form a unique immigrant group within Montana’s population. Unlike many immigrant groups war brides traveled to Montana alone, came to live with people they had never met, and entered new lives without the comfort of an existing support system to ease the ...

Floerchinger, Peggy.

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