Smokejumper Obituary: Hammarstrom, Brynolf (Missoula 1943)

Authors

National Smokejumper Association

Files

Obituary

Bryn died July 18, 2008, in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania at age 90. He was born on August 6, 1917, in Ridgewood, New Jersey He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1939 with a degree in chemistry and was drafted into the Civilian Public Service in 1941. Bryn was among the first group of CPS jumpers and trained at Seeley Lake with Jim Waite as foreman. "While in training we watched Frank Derry make his last jump. He did not land on the field. A group of military people from Alaska came to Seeley Lake for training to be a search and rescue squad." Training for the 1944 season was moved to Nine Mile northwest of Missoula. "Florence Wenger went through the training but never made a jump." After smokejumping he spent two years as a medic in Puerto Rico and, after being discharged, he went to work at a chemist developing floor coverings. In 1970, after extensive rehabilitation work recovering from a bicycle accident, he spent twenty years of volunteer work for many service organizations in his area.

Identifier

Hammarstrom_Brynolf_Missoula_1943

Publication Date

October 2008

Keywords

Smokejumping; Smokejumpers -- United States; National Smokejumper Association; Wildfire fighters; Obituaries

Disciplines

Forest Management

Recommended Citation

National Smokejumper Association, "Smokejumper Obituary: Hammarstrom, Brynolf (Missoula 1943)" (2008). Smokejumper Obituaries. 1008.
https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_bios/1008