T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

 

ABSTRACT

 

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Louie C. Reinberg                                  #4700.0634

 

IDENTIFICATION: [ Ca. 1914   -    ] Director of the LSU Foundation, Brigadier General U. S. Marine Corps, LSU graduate

 

INTERVIEWER: Jack Fisher 

 

PROJECT: LSU History

 

DATES: November 1995                                                     FOCUS DATES: 1931-1995

 

ABSTRACT: Native of Zachary, Louisiana; product of LSU's ROTC program; experiences as an LSU cadet in the early 1930s; Middleton influenced choice of military service; career begins with  Fleet Marine Force; assigned to battleship U.S.S. Mississippi; career with Marines outlined; WWII service; explanation of Marine term Defense Battalion; career at LSU; brief discussion of Marines and Korea.

 

 

TAPES: T 920                                                       TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 30 minutes

 

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 18 pages

 

RESTRICTIONS: None