Do you know about the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion? The triple nickels as they were known were an all black paratrooper battalion that flew out of Pendleton Oregon and was tasked with fighting forest fires started by over 9000 incendiary Japanese balloons that have been sent across the ocean on the jetstream. @The Wandering Historian surely knows way more about this. #wa #history #pendleton #oregon #pnw #washington #military #triplenickles