To: Travis McGee,RightWhale,silas
As a point of interest, those fires started by the Japanese were fought by the 555th Parachute Infantry Company (Triple Nickel-later redesignated the 505th), America's first black paratroopers, functioning as smokejumpers.
53 posted on
06/12/2002 1:28:19 PM PDT by
SJackson
To: SJackson
Cool! I'll bet they can tell some stories!
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