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555th Parachute Infantry Battalion

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The Triple Nickels: Smoke Jumpers of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion

the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion was an all-black airborne unit of the United States Army that not only protected our homeland from wildfire devastation during the1940s, but greatly impacted firefighting in the Pacific Northwest and smoke jumping as a vocation.

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