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Kamm, Wendy

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Oral History Interview with Wendy Kamm, 1984 November 30

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Identifier: UMToh133-053
Abstract

Wendy Kamm discusses being one of the first three women smokejumpers at the Missoula, Montana base in 1982. She describes the training and the injuries she sustained, and compares fighting fires in Alaska to Montana. Kamm talks about the psychological and emotional harassment by male smokejumpers that she endured, as well as strength she felt it took to be a female smokejumper.

Dates: 1984 November 30