The National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey is the home of the Center for U.S. War Veterans’ Oral History Project. It is the Center’s mission to collect and preserve the memories of veterans through recorded oral history interviews.

The interviews are recorded on videotape and DVD formats and housed at the museum’s Sea Girt location, where they are accessible to researchers and scholars. As part of its program of providing historical information to the public, the museum is posting summaries of interviews on this website.

To date, the Center’s collection contains over 300 interviews of veterans of all branches of service from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom and other American military campaigns.

The Center for U. S. War Veterans’ Oral History Program is an official partner of the Library of Congress Veterans’ History Project in Washington, DC. A record of each interview is filed with that organization. Each interviewed veteran receives a copy of his or her recording in their choice of VHS or DVD format for personal use. For further information on access to this collection, or to participate in the program, please visit or contact Carol Fowler at the museum in Sea Girt at 732-974-5966.

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Biographical Questionnaire Form (PDF Format)

Summaries:
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World War II	Korean War	Vietnam War
Henry Bednarski Robert A. Busick Peter Book Joe Casino Donald Fitz Maurice Leo Fraser Arthur F. Gentile  John J. Geiger William A. Gill William G. Girrbach Harry Greenwood Barbara Gunderson Warren Handley Andrew Himey James A. Kane Samuel D. Kaye Paul Kenworthy John Knox Jerome J. McCabe  Spencer C. Moore Mary Newman  Martin D. Potash George Pushkal Harold Seidler Stanley J. Truax James J. Walker	Dr. Richard Connors Albert Hujdich Henry Hansen John Koenig Thomas Martin Mary Newman  Michael A. Pignatello George Waple	Joseph G. Bilby Robert Callahan Frank R. Carlini Arthur P. Chesley Michael J. Coale Gary E. Rieth James P. Wollner