Interview with Charles Theriault, by Steve Showers for the Voices from the Second World War: An Oral History, Center for Oral History, University of Connecticut, 30 March 2000.
Interview with Albert O. Montambault by Joseph J. Masi for the WWII Oral History Project, Center for Oral History, University of Connecticut, 1 December 1999.
Interview with Edward LaPointe by Steve Showers for the WWII Oral History Project, Center for Oral History, University of Connecticut, 23 February 2000.
Interview with Art Frechette, by Steve Showers for the Voices from the Second World War: An Oral History, Center for Oral History, University of Connecticut, 22 March 2000.
This collection consists of handwritten correspondence from 1975-1997 between Mr. Merle Rainey and Mr. René Ducroquet who was Mr. Rainey's French resistance host while he was hiding from the Germans in France, during World War II. Also included are a few newspaper articles on Colonel Thomas Christian whose plane was shot down on August 12, 1944 during the same mission over France with Mr. Rainey.
Many Franco-Americans were in the U.S. military during WWII. Marvin Haines married into a Franco-American family and was adopted by a Franco-American family, the Daigneaults.
The collection consists of photographs, many undated and unidentified, including one album, all previously belonging to Eva Ainsley. The album contains photos dating from around 1919 to 1930, including World War I and the 1927 flood in Barre. The bulk of the World War I photographs are of the parade on September 12, 1919 in Washington, D.C., and include several snapshots of General John J. Pershing. The album also includes photographs of Cutler Corners in Orange, Vermont, including the Ainsley farm, and Lake Memphremagog and Lake Willoughby, as well as other lakes in Vermont.
Journal kept by Robert R. Lahue while he served on the U. S. S. Ringgold. The front half of the journal contains technical information relating to the boiler system fo the U.S.S. Ringgold. The journal also includes ten pages of Lahue's "Personal Diary" covering the dates January 1, 1943 through August 25, 1945, containing terse entries describing the movements of the ship. A souvenir pamphlet dated October 27, 1945, listing the personnel and giving details of the history of the ship in the Pacific.
Claire Bouffard Chase, born in Winooski, Vt. and of French-Canadian descent, talks about her family, in particular her grandmother, mother and father, and the World War II experiences of her brother, Clem. She relates stories she heard as a child, talks about being raised to be self-sufficient and discusses her father's life philosophy. Most interesting are her stories about a healing tradition in the family that borders on the mysterious and mystical, where certain family members could take away pain (and Claire's warts) by the power of suggestion, and how this tradition was passed on in a very strict code of secrecy. Kim Chase conducts the interview.
