Emil Eschenburg interview, 1997.

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Emil Eschenburg interview, 1997.

In this interview Emil Eshenburg discusses growing up in Michigan, family members who served in the miltary during his youth, attending college in Michigan, ROTC training, entrace into the U.S. Army in 1939 (serving in Iceland), coming to Montana in 1942 to train at Fort Harrison with the First Special Forces, and his experiences serving in U.S. Army during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam Conflict. (OH 1734).

Sound recording ; 2 tapes.Transcript ; 65 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6822452

Montana Historical Society Library

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