Parachute Museum Theater

Aviation Trail
Mar 25, 2023
1 min read

Fort Benning's 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion

"The Triple Nickles"

# 9 in a series of videos featured on the Aviation Trail Parachute Museum Theater -

A Double Feature on Parachute History

by Fort Benning TV

Presented by Fort Benning TV

These videos tell the story of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, the first all-black unit of paratroopers. The unit was the first of its kind, an all-black paratroop battalion, nicknamed the "Triple Nickles." They were used as smokejumpers, fighting forest fires ignited by Japanese balloon bombs on the West Coast, becoming known as the 555 "Smoke Jumpers."

See more about Fort Benning (soon to be renamed Fort Moore) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Benning.

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