Doreen Beryl Richard Interview, 2002.

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Doreen Beryl Richard Interview, 2002.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/764449326

In this interview Doreen Richard discusses her childhood in West Bromwich, England; experiences during World War II including air raids, rationing, encountering an unexploded bomb; meeting and courting an American soldier; immigrating to the United States in 1946 to Loma, Montana; first impressions of life in America; differences in cultures; cooking for work crews on the farm; having children; and moving to Fort Benton in 1958. (OH 2033)

2 Cassette tape(s)(1 hour, 40 minutes) Analog Transcript 34 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 ...

Richard, Doreen Beryl.

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