{"id":16355,"date":"2025-03-30T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T16:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/joe-harris-108-dies-thought-to-be-the-oldest-world-war-ii-paratrooper\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T16:24:37","slug":"joe-harris-108-dies-thought-to-be-the-oldest-world-war-ii-paratrooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/joe-harris-108-dies-thought-to-be-the-oldest-world-war-ii-paratrooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Harris, 108, Dies; Thought to Be the Oldest World War II Paratrooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Joe Harris, who as a sergeant with an all-Black infantry unit during World War II parachuted into forest fires across the Pacific Northwest set off by bomb-laden Japanese balloons, and who was believed to be the oldest surviving U.S. paratrooper, died on March 15 in Los Angeles. He was 108.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by a representative of his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Harris was a member of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/triplenickle.com\/home.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">555th Parachute Infantry Battalion<\/a>, nicknamed the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenmusa.org\/articles\/triple-nickles\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Triple Nickles<\/a> (the word was deliberately misspelled) after their unit designation and the three buffalo nickels that formed their insignia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He had enlisted in the Army in 1941, and he volunteered to join the 555th soon after it was formed in 1943. The Army was still rigidly segregated, and most Black service members served in support roles; the battalion was designed as an early step toward the military\u2019s eventual desegregation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It never served overseas. Instead, in 1945 it was transferred from its base in North Carolina to rural Oregon as part of a confidential program known as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/science-technology\/fire\/smokejumpers\/missoula\/history\/operation-firefly\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Firefly.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In late 1944, Japanese forces had begun launching hundreds of so-called balloon bombs into the jet stream, carried across the Pacific to the U.S. mainland. After three days, they dropped their explosive payloads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Though some 300 bombs reached the United States, only six people were killed, in a single incident in May 1945. But the devices set off countless forest fires, often in rural parts of the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The U.S. government kept Operation Firefly, and the existence of the balloon bombs, a secret, to avoid stoking fear among the civilian population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Harris and his unit became the front line in fighting the blazes. Jumping from C-47 cargo planes, they wore leather football helmets with wire-mesh face masks and carried a brace of firefighting tools, including the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/t-d\/pubs\/htmlpubs\/htm05232810\/page06.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pulaski<\/a>, a specialized tool that combines an ax and an adze.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They were trained to aim for trees, to avoid landing in dangerously rugged territory. Among their gear was a 50-foot rope that they would use to drop to the ground after getting snared in branches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Harris performed 72 jumps, fighting fires started by the bombs as well as by lightning and other natural causes. He was honorably discharged in late 1945. The Army was desegregated in 1947, and the 555th was incorporated into the 82nd Airborne Division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Joe Harris was born on June 19, 1916, in Westdale, a small town in northwest Louisiana. Before joining the Army he was a truck driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After leaving the Army, Mr. Harris moved to Compton, Calif., where he worked for the Border Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He is survived by his son, Pirate Joe Harris; his daughters, Michaun Harris and Latanya Pittman; and five grandchildren. His wife, Louise Harris, died in 1981.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Unlike another all-Black unit during World War II, the famed Tuskegee Airmen, the Triple Nickles long remained obscure, though in recent decades veterans groups have begun to celebrate them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In January a group of Marine Corps veterans and wildland firefighters visited Mr. Harris at his home in Compton. 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