Smokejumper Obituary: Flaccus, David P. (Missoula 1943)

Authors

National Smokejumper Association

Files

Obituary

David, 75, died October 25, 1993, in Bend, Oregon. He was born October 31, 1917, in Pennsylvania. David went to Quaker schools outside of Philadelphia and graduated from Haverford College in 1940. He was drafted into the Civilian Public Service in 1941 and was among the first of that group to report to Seeley Lake, Montana, for smokejumper training. David, Phil Stanley and Loren Zimmerman were the first CPS jumpers to make a fire jump on July 29, 1943. He was one of the few CPS jumpers to jump all three seasons (43-45) of the program. David settled in Missoula upon his release and started a printing business. The Mountain Press Publishing Company became very successful and known worldwide. He is also one of the founders of the Snow Bowl Ski Area near Missoula. The U.S. National Downhill ski championships were held at the Snow Bowl in February 1967.

Flaccus was interviewed as part of a smokejumper oral history project currently housed at the University of Montana (UM) Archives and Special Collections. You may read or listen to the transcript by going to the UM digital collections here: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/smokejumpers/4/

Identifier

Flaccus_David-P_Missoula_1943

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Keywords

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

Disciplines

Forest Management

Recommended Citation

National Smokejumper Association, "Smokejumper Obituary: Flaccus, David P. (Missoula 1943)" (2002). Smokejumper Obituaries. 1389.
https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_bios/1389