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1. mainlynorfolk.info › peter › songsThe Death of Nelson / Nelson’s Death and Victory (Roud 18837)

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   Jul 23, 2024 · The song was also printed in Palmer’ 1986 book The Oxford Book of Sea Songs and its expanded 2001 edition, Boxing the Compass. Peter Bellamy sang The Death of Nelson (On Board the Man o’ War) on his privately issued cassette of 1982, The Maritime England Suite , accompanied by Dorothy Collins on piano and Ursula Pank on cello.

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3. www.firerescue1.com › wildfire › articlesMann Gulch revisited: A world turned upside-down - FireRescue1

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   6 days ago · Fire at Mann Gulch. The Aug. 5, 1949, fire at Mann Gulch took the lives of 13 U.S. Forest Service (USFS) smokejumpers in Montana’s Helena National Forest. The deadly fire has been the subject of ...

4. www.montanarightnow.com › fires › mann-gulchHiking Into the History Books: The Mann Gulch Fire, 75-Years ...

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   Jul 29, 2024 · An eerie silence greets you, as the waves, the wind, and time sit in this valley of tragedy. The young men and that fire, burning into memory, but not lost to time. Now, 75 years later, we're embarking with you on a hike into the history books, as we pay our respects to the 13 lost souls - the defenders of our forests - gone too soon to the ...

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6. www.plymouthindependent.org › it-was-a-helluva-way‘It was a helluva way to die’ - Plymouth Independent

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   Aug 3, 2024 · “Pushed directly upgulch by the turbulent wind, the fire swept through the treetops, covering 120 feet every minute, moving four to six times faster than the fire on the ground,” wrote Mark Matthews in his 2007 book “A Good Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949.” “The crew ahead began their retreat up the gulch with a 400-yard head start, a distance the fire could cover in six minutes.”

7. pressblog.uchicago.edu › 2024/08/05 › mann-gulch-aMann Gulch: A National Legacy at Seventy-Five, a Guest Post ...

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   6 days ago · August 5, 2024 by PublicityTeam. August 5, 2024, marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Montana’s deadly Mann Gulch fire, immortalized by Norman Maclean in his best-selling book, Young Men and Fire. Today, Maclean’s son, John N. Maclean, will deliver this speech for an anniversary observance at Montana’s state capital in Helena. A quarter ...

8. www.firerescue1.com › firefighting-historyRemembering the Mann Gulch fire, 75 years later - FireRescue1

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   6 days ago · The flames of the Mann Gulch fire spread rapidly, overtaking 16 men sent to tame it in a gulch outside of Helena. Just three survived. The smokejumpers lost to the flames in the Gates of the ...

9. www.406independent.com › p › 75-years-after-fatal75 Years After Fatal Mann Gulch Fire, Families to Gather to ...

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   Jul 31, 2024 · Smokejumping was a relatively new craft, emerging in the 1930s as a way to quickly get firefighters into remote territory to douse blazes. At the time, the USFS subscribed to what it called the “10 a.m. policy” where it attempted to suppress every fire reported by 10 a.m. the next day, an all-or-nothing method of firefighting that did not consider the role of fire on the landscape.