Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Henry T. Capiz

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Henry T. Capiz (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Henry T. Capiz was born in 1926 in Minnesota, the oldest of six children of Mexican immigrant parents. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944. He was posted to a Parachute Infantry Regiment and shipped out to the Pacific. He was discharged from active service in 1946 but served in the Reserves until officially retiring in 1986 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He used his GI Bill benefits to attend a Minnesota university, graduating in 1957 with a degree in pharmacology. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Being drafted into the U.S. Army; growing up Mexican American in an integrated community; witnessing segregation in the south and in the military; volunteering for the Airborne and serving in the Pacific; interaction with civilians in the Philippines and Japan; experience handling Japanese prisoners of war; returning to civilian life; how the war experience changed him; continuing education for better opportunities.

Dates

• 11/10/2002 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Capiz, Henry T.
• interviewer: Saylor, Thomas

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 112
• Accession Number: AV2006.1.7

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I' <OH 112>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 42 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 90 minutes length

Subjects

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