Wilbur Joffrion oral history interview, 1995.

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Wilbur Joffrion oral history interview, 1995.

Joffrion discusses his family and early life in Alexandria, La., including the Depression and its effects there; his early interest in the military; and decision to attend LSU and West Point. In addition to campus and social life at LSU, including hazing, he describes the patriotic feeling of the campus during the early years of World War II. He recounts his experience and opinion of West Point as a student, his teaching career there, and his later military service in Germany and Korea.

1 sound cassette (1 hour);Transcript (54 p.)

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