Janet K. Mohn interview, 2002.

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Janet K. Mohn interview, 2002.

In this interview Janet Mohn discusses her childhood in Australia; experiences during World War II; meeting and courting American soldier; immigration to the United States in 1946; adjusting to new life in Kalispell; cultural differences she noticed; her new family; the overseas wives club; and various part-time jobs she held from the 1960s to the 1980s. (OH 2045)

2 Cassette tape(s)(50 minutes) Analog Transcript 25 p

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SNAC Resource ID: 8179830

Montana Historical Society Library

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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 ...

Mohn, Janet K.

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Overseas Wives Club (Kalispell, Mont.)

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