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A report on the smokejumping experiments near Winthrop, Washington in 1939. This copy of the report includes memos to regional foresters based in McCall, Boise, and Salmon, Idaho.

Members of the experiment team included Chet and Frank Derry, Harold C. King, Beach Gill, D.P. Godwin, Dick Tuttle, and Walter Anderson. Photographs from the Albert Davies photograph collection are used in the report.

Publication Date

1939

Publisher

Region 6 United States Forest Service

Keywords

Smokejumping, Smokejumpers -- United States, National Smokejumper Association, Wildfire fighters, North Cascades Smokejumper Base (U.S.)

Repository

Eastern Washington University Archives and Special Collections

Parachute Jumping in Forest Fire Control Fall 1939

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