Below are the Veteran oral history interviews from the Making History Project. Our Veteran oral history interviews seek to cover Veterans from all eras, including World War II, Korea, Cold War, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the present. No story is too small or unimportant. Our mission is to leave no Veteran behind.
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To preserve these memories for the future, the Making History Project will archive the Veteran oral history interviews with the United States Library of Congress and the University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
If you are a Veteran, or know of a Veteran, who would be interested in providing an oral history interview and receiving a digital copy of the same, please contact us.
Tokunaga Toshio - WWII VeteranWWII Veteran, Toshio Tokunaga, was interviewed on October 16, 2014, in Dallas, Texas. CPL Tokunaga served as a paratrooper with the 507 and 508 P.I.R. of the 82nd Airborne during World War II. CPL Tokunaga volunteered for the Army while he and his family were in an internment camp (Camp Harmony and Camp Minidoka) for Japanese Americans during the war. CPL Tokunaga discusses the move to an internment camp, Operation Varsity, and his return home to find his family after the war.
Vegnone Frank - WWII Veteran (Excerpt)WWII Veteran Frank Vegnone was interviewed in Webster, Massachusetts on August 21, 2015. Sergeant Vegnone served in the 10th Armored Division, 61st Armored Infantry Battalion, seeing action in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany during WWII. Most notably, Sergeant Vegnone was part of the Division that held Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
Warger Vincent - WWII Veteran InterviewWWII Veteran, Vincent Warger, was interviewed on October 11, 2015, in Miami, Florida. SGT Vincent Warger was a Flight Engineer with the 47th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force, and flew 27 missions in Italy during World War. II. SGT Warger recounts how he saved a team member's life from a turret when his plane was on fire.