Ruth Poore Batchen Interview, 2002, 2005.

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Ruth Poore Batchen Interview, 2002, 2005.

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In this interview Ruth Batchen discusses her childhood in Liverpool; her experiences during World War II; meeting and courting an American soldier; immigration to the United States; and her life in Billings. Additional interview conducted with daughter Pamela Lemelin in 2005. (OH 2039)

2 Cassette tape(s)(1 hour, 40 minutes) Analog Transcript 26 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 ...

Batchen, Ruth Poore, d.2004.

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