Interview with Curney Dronet and Robert Leblanc; Interview with Louise Landry and Dave Landry
00:00 - Being stationed in Scotland for training;
01:10 - Being debriefed on situation going on in France, they had to know the French language for this;
02:10 - Description of OSS teams and their jobs;
05:30 - Was assigned to the 4th armored division;
07:40 - Description of tasks - Provided security for Patton's convoys, guarded POWs, provided intelligence;
09:00 - Returning to U.S. for training and then was deployed to French Indochina - trained people over there for espionage work;
10:00 - End of the war; returning home;
10:30 - State of education before WWII;
11:35 - Studied Geology at LSU, had not graduated by the time he was called to duty;
12:10 - Never registered for the Draft because he was an ROTC cadet;
12:50 - His family owned the first radio in Abbeville, Only station they caught was WWL;
15:00 - Robert LeBlanc's background - Born north of Erath in 1921, moved to Abbeville when his father went work at the Accessor's office;
15:30 - Charles Donald Frederick's death at Pearl Harbor;
18:30 - Glen Conrad and Carl Brasseaux's definitions of Cajun and Creole;
20:00 - LeBlanc talks about joining the service after Pearl Harbor;
23:20 - Response to the Pearl Harbor attack;
24:45 - LeBlanc spoke very little English when he started grade school. He discusses learning English in school;
25:55 - He was never punished for speaking French, but talks about how other students were punished;
29:30 - Hiring of non-local, non-French speaking teachers;
31:30 - Discussing how bilingualism is valuable;
32:25 - Shame felt for not being able to speak English;
35:00 - Americanization;
35:45 - LeBlanc telling a story about having dinner with some French people, he used the word "asteur" which caught the ear of the older people;
40:20 - Culture shock when entering the service;
43:30 - Slang from different regions
44:15 - "Frenchie" nickname; name mispronunciation
