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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M88- 29
Creator: Butzloff, Joseph P., 1896-
Title, Dates: Joseph Butzloff oral history and photographs, 1988.
Amount: 5.00 item
Medium Included: audiotapes cassette
photographs
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Terms Governing Use: Patrons are requested to use the duplicate cassette tape.
Biographical/Historical:     Joseph P. Butzloff was born in Brunswick, Georgia, on April 5, 1896. After moving to Florida, he enlisted in Company H, Second Infantry, Florida National Guard on September 24, 1914. From 1916 to 1917 Butzloff served with his unit along the Texas-Mexican Border. During the First World War he served in France with the 116th Machine Gun Battalion.
Summary:     This collection consists primarily of an oral history given by Joseph P. Butzloff in the spring of 1988. Florida Archives staff member David Coles prepared the questions and Butzloff's son read them. The oral history deals primarily with Butzloff's service in the Florida Guard. He details his participation in the Mexican Punitive Expedition and in World War I. There is no transcription of the interview.

    Also included in the collection are copies of four photographs of Butzloff: two taken during World War I; one during the final (1981) reunion of Company H, Second Florida Infantry; and one in 1988.
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Subject Access Fields: Florida. National Guard.
United States. Army.  --Machine Gun Battalion, 116th.
Mexican Punitive Expedition, 1916.
World War, 1914-1918.
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Sound recordings. aat
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