Gene Pitts interview, 1984 Sept. 28.

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Gene Pitts interview, 1984 Sept. 28.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70970572

Pitts tells of his experiences as a smokejumper in 1942 while training as a Navy pilot and of how the smokejumping helped as a Navy fighter pilot.

1 sound cassette (51 min.) : analog + 1 transcript + 1 tape counter index.

University of Montana, Mansfield Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8060013

University of Montana, Mansfield Library

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Smokejumpers Oral History Project (K. Ross Toole Archives)

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Pitts, Gene

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Smokejumper and World War II Navy fighter pilot. From the description of Gene Pitts interview, 1984 Sept. 28. (University of Montana, Mansfield Library). WorldCat record id: 70970572 ...

Norgaard, Jim

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