Dennis C. Smith was born in Helena, Arkansas on February 8, 1931, but he grew up in Superior, Wisconsin. He graduated from St. Anthony grade school, East High School, University of Wisconsin Superior, and received his Master’s degree in mathematics from Rutgers University. He also studied mathematics at Princeton, Cornell, and the University of California at Berkley.
The annual event was derailed last year by a tornado and the pandemic. The last of the original pilots who did the candy drops in the 1940s in Berlin, 100-year-old Gail Halvorsen, is expected to return for this year's re-enactment in Dare County.
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