Smokejumpers
By Connie Rea
This page is a memorial to all the smokejumpers past and present.
My father, Lonnie "Curlee" Rea lived in McCall for quite a few years in the 40's & 50's, where I was born. Curlee went to work for the US Forest Service as a Smoke Jumper at McCall from 1946-1949 following his service in the 11th Air borne Paratrooper Infantry in WWII. The photo below is of Dad after he parachuted into a beautiful Valley County meadow, possibly above the base in the late 40's. -- Connie Rea (Curlee's Obit and photo)
(Click on Photo to enlarge)
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National Smokejumpers Association
Idaho State
Historicial Society -
Smokejumping and Forest Fire Fighting Oral History Project
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