Joyce Vashro Interview, 2002.

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Joyce Vashro Interview, 2002.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/764468744

In this interview Joyce Vashro describes her childhood in London, England; her experiences during World War II; bombings and air raids in London; family members' military service in World War I and World War II; her work for the Women's Land Army; meeting and courting Dick Vashro, an American soldier; getting married; immigrating to the United States in 1946; her experiences on the Queen Mary with a young child; arrival and life in Butte; her homesickness; moving to Austin, Montana, and living there until 1967; and thoughts about her home country. (OH 2029)

1 Cassette tape(s)(45 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 ...

Women's Land Army (Great Britain)

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The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organization created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military. It was disbanded in 1919 but revived in June 1939 under the same name to again organise women to replace workers called up to the military during the Second World War....

Vashro, Joyce I.

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