Newberry Oyster Casserole

My father, who was in the Army’s vaunted 82^nd Airborne Division during World War II, fought in every major battle in which the 82^nd was engaged in North Africa and Europe. After the war, he joined an organization called the Forty-and-Eight Club, an offshoot of the American Legion. (The “Forty-and-Eight” name comes from the railroad cars used in France during World War I, which could hold forty men or eight horses.) A lady in Newberry, South Carolina, always made this o