Members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:555th_Parachute_Infantry_Battalion_(United_States)" class="extiw" title="w:en:555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States)">555th (Triple Nickel) Parachute Infantry Battalion</a> are briefed before takeoff from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JB_MDL_Dix" class="extiw" title="w:en:JB MDL Dix">Fort Dix</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:New_Jersey" class="extiw" title="w:en:New Jersey">New Jersey</a> in 1947. The Triple Nickel was an all black airborne unit in World War II and the end of the war became on of the first smoke jumping units in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:United_States_Department_of_Agriculture" class="extiw" title="w:en:United States Department of Agriculture">U.S. Department of Agriculture</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:United_States_Forest_Service" class="extiw" title="w:en:United States Forest Service">Forest Service</a>.  Photo courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration.
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1947
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