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Greatest Generation: Carlisle injured parachuting into Holland
By Alex McRae
The Times-Herald
It was a great day to see the sights. Sept. 17, 1944, was clear and sunny, and as Jimmy Carlisle's parachute floated down toward the town of Nijmegen, Holland, he thought it was a pretty day for his first combat jump.