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smokejumpers
History and Culture
Jumpers get their due nearly 75 years after wartime missions over Northwest
Tom Banse
It’s a story that seemingly has it all: a classified mission, dashing young men in uniform, leaps out of flying airplanes, stray bombs, plus some…
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