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Clarence Beavers, pioneering black paratrooper and smoke jumper, dies at 96
Clarence Beavers, pioneering black paratrooper and smoke jumper, dies at 96
12-11-2017 08:47 PM Clarence Beavers, the last surviving member of America's first black parachute unit, a World War II "test platoon" that went on to battle fires caused by Japanese bombs and paved the way for black paratroopers in the postwar integrated military, died Dec. 4 at his home in Huntington, New York. He was 96.       More... 
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