Beatrice "Pete" Berringer Interview, 2002.

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Beatrice "Pete" Berringer Interview, 2002.

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In this interview Beatrice Berringer discusses her childhood in Australia; experiences during World War II including rationing; meeting and courting American soldier named Ted Berringer; immigration to the United States in 1945; shipboard experiences; travel to and adjusting to life in Miles City and later Billings; meeting in Billings with other war brides. Additional information gathered through interview with Mrs. Berringer's daughter, Marilyn Wade. (OH 2040)

2 Cassette tape(s)(35 minutes) Analog Transcript 18 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 ...

Berringer, Beatrice.

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