T. Harry
Williams Center for Oral History Collection
INTERVIEWEE
NAME:
General Steve A. Chappuis COLLECTION:
4700.0638
IDENTIFICATION: [1913- ] Former General in the United States Army
INTERVIEWER: Mary Hebert
PROJECT: World War II
DATES: November 30,
1995 FOCUS
DATES: 1932-1967
ABSTRACT:
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927
Chappuis's
birth place and date as well as family information; children in family
attending LSU; the depression; football trips with Huey Long; living and
working on campus; sharing a room with Abe Mickal former LSU football player;
memories of LSU ROTC; memories of General Troy Middleton; becoming a
commissioned officer in the regular army through the Thomason Act; Airborne
training; memories of the airborne invasion of Normandy on D day; participating
in the Airborne invasion of the Netherlands; rations and supplies that the
troops had; conditions and fighting at the Battle of the Bulge; seeing a
concentration camp; assignments after the war; thoughts on the bombing of Japan
with a nuclear weapon; assignments during military career; working with NATO;
Major General Joe Lourie former football player.
TAPES:
927 TOTAL
PLAYING TIME: 45 min.
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PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 45
RESTRICTIONS: None.