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A Personal Connection to History: Meeting Yen Gazda and the Gazda Family
A pivotal chapter in the narrator’s story involves a romantic relationship with Yen Gazda, a woman from Hollywood who introduced him to the intriguing history of her grandfather, Antoine Gazda. Gazda was a renowned inventor and engineer associated with Gaz Engineering in Wakefield, Rhode Island. Her grandfather’s work on the Gasta auto cannon—a type of Oerlikon—piqued the narrator’s interest, especially as she revealed that the U.S. government potentially owed her family millions of dollars for innovations.