About the Historian

Dr. Vernon L. Williams is a military and naval historian. He received his doctorate from Texas A&M University in 1985. He is currently serving as President of the Old Primero Historical Foundation and Director of the East Anglia Air War Project. Before 2018 he spent thirty years as professor of history in the Department of History at Abilene Christian University. Since 2001 Dr. Williams has been working to document the wartime experiences of American and British citizens alike. Planned outcomes from this project include several books over the next few years and a number of documentary films.

Currently, Dr. Williams is writing a volume on the sense of community that developed between the Americans and British families living in villages around the American bases. The working title for the book is: Crucible of War: The Anglo/American Exchange in World War II England, 1942-1945. Williams’ first documentary film, Deopham Green, appeared in 2004 and since that time, he has produced and directed eighteen documentaries on various subjects.

You can visit oldsegundo.com to find information on the films that are currently available and learn about others that are now in the production and pre-production stages. For over a decade Dr. Williams’ university students have also produced a series of short documentary films on wartime England that are gifted to British schools and museums for use in teaching current generations of British students about World War II in England.