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The new digital project that currently needs your help!

Current Projects

Dr. Williams and the Old Primero Historical Foundation of Abilene is currently engaged in a new project aimed at digitizing the 23 years of oral history interviews and the more than150,000 historic photographic images collected during that two-plus decade long journey.  The new digital project will insure that this massive new wartime collection will be preserved for generations to come.   The following link will direct you to details about this new digital initiative current underway.

Preserve Vital New WWII Oral History Interviews and Archives with the New Digital Project

Documentary Films in Progress

Historical Projects Underway

Past Projects

Patton and Pancho: A Clash of Cultures

Patton and Pancho: A Clash of Cultures was a conference and documentary film premiere on the Mexican Revolution and the American Military Intervention in Mexico in 1916 (Wednesday, March 9, 2016–Friday, March 11, 2016)

In commemoration of the one hundred year anniversary of Pancho Villa’s attack on Columbus, New Mexico and the American military intervention into northern Mexico, the Old Primero Historical Foundation and the Journal of Military Aviation History co-sponsered a conference, Patton and Pancho: A Clash of Cultures.