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Obituary
"Ace," 96, died May 22, 2019. He was born December 27, 1922, in Kuna, Iowa. Glen attended Boise Jr. College where he played shortstop on the baseball team. Ace later graduated from Idaho State. He was a Naval aviator during WWII and you can see his display at the Nampa, Idaho, Warhawk Air Museum. Ace was involved in the Idaho Dairy Association and was President of the Meridian Dairy Days. He was a regular attender at the local smokejumper gatherings. Ace jumped at McCall 1946-48.
Nielsen 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/77/
Identifier
Nielsen_Andrew-Glen_McCall_1946
Publication Date
6-28-2019
Keywords
Smokejumping; Smokejumpers -- United States; National Smokejumper Association; Wildfire fighters; Obituaries
Disciplines
Forest Management
Recommended Citation
National Smokejumper Association, "Smokejumper Obituary: Nielsen, Andrew Glen (McCall 1946)" (2019). Smokejumper Obituaries. 554.
https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_bios/554
