517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team
Kingdon (King) Brady- April, 2005 |
From smokejumpers.com:
Brady, Kingdon (King)
(Missoula 1946)
King was born in Virginia, Minnesota and graduated from high school in Yakima,
Washington. He served with the 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Europe
during WWII and graduated from Ohio University after the war. King jumped three
seasons at Missoula. He received his doctor of medicine from the University of
Cincinnati in 1954 and practiced family medicine before going into Pathology in
1966. King then practiced Pathology in West Lafayette, Indiana until his
retirement to Stuart, Florida, in 1989. He was an NSA member and liked to keep
up with smokejumping through the Smokejumper magazine. Thanks to Bonnie Brady
for sending along this information.
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