Image ID:  FHS3689
Image Date:  October 1939
Image Title:  Forest fire fighter.
Image Caption:  Caption 1: Para-fireman - This parachutist fights timber fires for the United States Forest Service. Much of his equipment is similar to that used at the battlefronts, since he encounters many of the same perils.

Caption 2: Fire-fighting parachute jumper at end of descent about to free himself from chute, remove protection suit, and start for fire.
Photographer:  Godwin, David P., for the U.S. Forest Service
Use Restrictions:  Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information:  Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.