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1. Print, Photographic - 1939 experimental sokejumper gear n front of a Stinson SR10 Forest Service plane. Jumper is Virgil 'Bus' Derry wearing a back brace, boots with leggings, and a helmet. North Cascades Smokejumper Base.

   2018.061.037

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2. Print, Photographic - 1939 smokejumper uniform with back brace and boots with leggings. North Cascades Smokejumper Base.

   2018.061.038

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. Print, Photographic - 1959 USFS Smokejumper Uniter Intercity Airport. Plane in back is a Twin Beech. From top left: Pilot Buck Buchanan, Base Manager Francis Lufkin, Administrative Staff/Clerk Warren Badger, Hal Weinmann, Paul Salinski, Bill Moody, Dan Lynch, Steve Pratt, Larry Pearson, Gerry Jessup, Tony Percival, Steve Daniels, Administrative Staffer Don Keller, Cook Truth Lyons (sister to Ruth), Jack McKay, Cook Ruth Walker (sister to Truth), Bill Eastman. Middle Row: Danny Dibble, Elmer Neufeld, Leon Glae, Everett Gale, Dennis Martin, Doug Baird, Burr Sterfield, Terry McCable, Gene Jessep, Leroy Gray. Front row: Dick Gifford, Jack Wright, Jim Theubet, Don Rolfs, John Zasada, Doug Nernhard, Jim Wetcott, David 'Skinny' Beales, Buck Pinot, Rey Zander, Kay Johnson

   2018.061.035

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. Print, Photographic - July 1, 1977 Forest Service Greensheet publication detailing the Soviet Union smokejumpers visiting the North Cascades Smokejumper Base, a reciprocal visit to Bill Moody's 1976 visit to eastern Siberia.

   2018.061.036

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. Print, Photographic - North Cascades Smokejumper Base. 1939 experimental jump, retrieving parachute from the tree. The highest jumper may be Francis Lufkin.

   2018.061.047

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. Print, Photographic - North Cascades Smokejumper Base. 1939 experimental smokejumpter gear in front of a Stinson SR10 Forest Service plane. Jumpers and pilot unknown

   2018.061.039

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. Print, Photographic - North Cascades Smokejumper Base. 1939 experimental smokejumpter gear in front of a Stinson SR10 Forest Service plane. Pilot is Harold King, smokejumpers unknown

   2018.061.040

   Record Type: Photo

   
8. Print, Photographic - North Cascades Smokejumper Base. 1939 experimental smokejumpter gear in front of a Stinson SR10 Forest Service plane. Smokejumper unknown

   2018.061.041

   Record Type: Photo

   
9. Print, Photographic - North Cascades Smokejumper Base. An experimental jump. The jumper is out of the plane and the parachute has not yet opened. The static line is visible.

   2018.061.046

   Record Type: Photo

   
10. Print, Photographic - North Cascades Smokejumper Base. Cargo parachute, 1939

    2018.061.043

    Record Type: Photo

    
11. Print, Photographic - North Cascades Smokejumper Base. Frank Derry, left, helps brother Virgil 'Bus' Derry arrange his gear in front of the Stinson SR10 airplane. 1939.

    2018.061.042

    Record Type: Photo

    
12. Print, Photographic - North Cascades Smokejumper Base. Part of the Base's experimental work was to see how a parachute would 'act' landing in a tree (Ponderosa pint in this case). Francis Lufkin was hired to climb and retrieve the parachutes. He later became the NCSB manager.

    2018.061.044

    Record Type: Photo

    
13. Print, Photographic - North Cascades Smokejumper Base. Protective jump pants shown by Frank Derry on the left and his brother Virgil Derry on right in front of Stinson SR10 airplance. 1939

    2018.061.045

    Record Type: Photo

    
14. Print, Photographic - Smoke jumper photos.

    2018.061.026

    Record Type: Photo

    
15. Print, Photographic - Smoke jumper photos. 1939. Experimental smokejumper protective suit and parachutes. The large, stiff, leather collar turned out to cause bad neck abrasions and was abandoned.

    2018.061.025

    Record Type: Photo

    
16. Print, Photographic - Smoke jumper photos. 1960 crew in front of parachute loft at North Cascades Smokejumper Base. From top left: unknoown, Chuck Casey, Robbie Hill, John Lester, the rest in top row unknown. From bottom left: Don Duffy, Ed Moses, Larry Bentley, Lylel Haugsvem, Joe Primm, Abie Harris

    2018.061.032

    Record Type: Photo

    
17. Print, Photographic - Smoke jumper photos. Bill Moody in white jump suit in 1977. About a dozen Russians visited the US and jumped into the Bear Creek jump spot in the Methow Valley. This Russian jumper is Nikolai Andreev, in charge of the Soviet aerial firefighting program. The Soviet equipment was given to the US.

    2018.061.014

    Record Type: Photo

    
18. Print, Photographic - Smoke jumper photos. Bill Moody in white jump suit in and Russian jumper Michael congratulate one another on the first jump of the Soviet/American technical exchange on smokejumping. US equipment was donated to the Soviet Union. It snowed the night before the jump in eastern Siberia. The result was quite a few vodka toast at dinner, according to Bill Moody.

    2018.061.013

    Record Type: Photo

    
19. Print, Photographic - Smoke jumper photos. Bill Moody in white jump suit in October 1977, on the US-Soviet technical exchange program, representing the US smokejumper program. Location - Ust Illimsk, eastern Siberia. One of two demo jumps with Russians jumping with American equipment. The plane is an AN2, a popular smokejumper airplane. This first jump was windy, according to Bill Moody, but both he and the Russian jumper landed about ten to fifteen feet from the target. Photographer Doug Bird.

    2018.061.012

    Record Type: Photo

    
20. Print, Photographic - Smoke jumper photos. Bill Moody (second from left) and Francis Lufkin (third from left) presented a program on the history of smokejumping. The gentlemen with Bill and Francis were from the 555th paratroopers. 555th paratrooper batallion jumped fires in the Pasayten with ten Forest Service jumpers in 1945. In that year 97 black paratroopers jumped in the Pasayten with ten Forest Service jumpers on the Bunker Hill/Peeve Creek Fire. They were part of a contingent of 300 black paratroopers trained at Pendelton, Oregon about 1945, boosting the smokejumper program which had been diminished by the needs of the military in WWII. It was called the Fire Fly Program. Twenty-three paratroopers also jumped on the Parks Fire in the Pasayten Wilderness, north-northwest of the Pasayten Airport. One hundred paratroopers also hiked (did not jump) to help fight the Spring Coulee Fire in the Okanogan Valley.

    2018.061.017

    Record Type: Photo