555th Parachute Infantry Company

Triple Nickel Smoke Jumpers

Dedicated to the first black

parachute infantry

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The Original Seventeen*

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1st Assigned and Selected

1ST SGT. Walter Morris

1st to Take Qualification Jump

SSGT Calvin R. Beal

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SSGT. Hubert Bridges • SSGT. Lonnie M. Duke

SSGT. Robert F. Greene • SGT. Clarence H. Beavers

SGT. Ned ...