Bob Derry interview, 1984 July 20.

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Bob Derry interview, 1984 July 20.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70970949

Derry talks of his two years, 1943 and 1946, as a smokejumper and about his brothers Frank, Chet and Virgil, all smokejumpers. He supervised conscientious objectors at age seventeen and returned as a veteran in 1946. He left smokejumping after that year, disillusioned with the Forest Service, but not with smokejumping or fire fighting.

1 sound cassette (62 min.) : analog + 1 transcript + 1 tape counter index.

University of Montana, Mansfield Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8060360

University of Montana, Mansfield Library

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