Former smokejumper Fred Cooper of Missoula will present Part 2 in the series “History of Smokejumping – A Continuing Saga" Sept. 19 for the Northwest Montana Posse of Westerners monthly program. - photo credit Mike McMillan
September 14, 2022
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September 14, 2022 midnight
Presentation looks at history of smokejumping
The program will continue with the first six years (1940-1946) of smokejumper operations in the U.S. Forest Service and how 1940 and 1941 were still considered experimental, impacts of World War II.