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  History of Smokejumping, 1959

  Division of Fire Control, Region One, United States Fire Service

  This document provides a brief history of the smokejumping program as of 1946. It begins with events leading up to the uses of aircraft prior to the formal establishments of smokejumping in 1940. From there, the report describes several significant events in the history of smokejumping in the Region One of the United States Forest Service. The report ends with a summary of smokejumper activity in 1955 and yearly statistics on wildland fire fighting activity for Region One starting in 1908.

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  History of Smokejumping, 1980

  United States. Forest Service. Northern Region. Aviation & Fire Management.

  This document is an updated version of a history written by Region One of the United States Forest Service in 1946. It provides a summary of events leading up to the smokejumping experiments in Winthrop, Washington, the provides a year-by-year summary for Region One through 1979.

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  Significant Events in Region One Smokejumping

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  This document provides a chronology of significant events for the Missoula Smokejumper Base, which serves United States Forest Service Region One. The chronology starts in 1935 with an initial proposal to use parachute jumpers to fight wildland forest fires to 1975, which happened to be a historically slow fire season.

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  Siskiyou Smokejumpers, 1943-1958

  United States. Forest Service

  This volume contains brief annual reports for activities at the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base. The reports contain crew rosters and lists of jumps. The end of the report contains year-by-year statistics.

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  Siskiyou Smokejumpers, 1959-1980

  United States. Forest Service

  This volume contains brief annual reports for activities at the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base. Each report contains a roster of smokejumpers and number of jumps by each member.