[ETL]

I think this is a fairly recent pic of him, in this article:
http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/11/12/news/campus/081111_panel.txt

I think you're right. Nice find.

Harrison Diamond / Alligator Staff) Julian Pleasants, director emeritus of the UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, listens to World War II veteran Clair Chaffin speak during a panel discussion at "Testimony of War" in Pugh Hall Monday night.

http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/11/12/news/campus/081111_panel.txt

[rottndog]

The gentleman shown facing in your pic is Julian Pleasants. Clair Chaffin is the man facing away from the camera in the lower left corner of the picture.

Here's another picture from a different angle of the same event (Clair Chaffin is on the right):

WW II panel members at "Testimony of War" program in November 2008. From
left to right: Clif Cormier, Iwo Jima survivor; Victor Cote, ex-POW held by the
Japanese; moderator Julian Pleasants; Frank Towers, Operation Cobra and
Battle of the Bulge survivor; and Clair Chaffin, corpsman on Saipan and Iwo
Jima. (photo by Ira Fischler)