With award-winning Filmmaker Tommy Dilger

James “Skip” Liberty voluntarily joined the Army in 1968 during the Vietnam War, carrying a home video camera given by his uncle to document his experience. What began as a simple request turned into an extraordinary firsthand account, capturing everything from basic training to life in Vietnam’s camps and battlefields. Decades later, a chance encounter with filmmaker Tommy Dilger brought this forgotten footage to light, leading to the creation of a powerful feature film.

About Tommy Dilger

Tommy Dilger is a documentary filmmaker with an interest in military history born and raised in Michigan, graduating the Savannah College of Art and Design with a degree in film in 2025. He has worked on films with director Keith Famie such as Detroit: The City of Hot Rods and Muscle Cars, as well as Chicago Fire Director of Photography Will Eichler on programs for the streaming platform HistoryFix, including Civil War Digital Digest. Tommy is currently working as the director, writer, and host of Victory Journal, a WWII educational series on HistoryFix.