Bryan Douglass, one of the pilots and driving forces behind the resurrection and rebuilding of the C-47 aircraft dubbed the ‘Miss Montana’, has just published a book about the experience that debuted at number one on Amazon in the Military Aviation History category.
The Miss Montana C-47 aircraft is at its very heart a cargo plane, and the cargo being delivered by the crew for the next few weeks will be life itself, with pallets of prepackaged meals to flood ravaged families in the Bahamas.
A local church group heard of the Miss Montana mission to provide disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Dorian that decimated the Bahamas, and generously gathered funds and supplies for the trip.
After Hurricane Dorian practically destroyed many of the islands in the Bahamas, Bryan Douglass and the crew of the Miss Montana knew immediately what they had to do.
It was 70 years ago, August 5, 1949 that 13 firefighters perished in the Mann Gulch Fire north of Helena just off the Missouri River after parachuting into the area from the C-47 aircraft that is now the Miss Montana.
The Miss Montana C-47 aircraft that helped commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day landed safely in Missoula yesterday afternoon to a cheering crowd.
The Miss Montana, the World War II vintage C-47 smokejumper aircraft landed safely in Missoula on Monday afternoon to a cheering crowd after an historic mission to help reenact the D-Day paratrooper drop over Normandy.
Miss Montana pilot Bryan Douglass shared some memories of the experience from Thursday's 75th anniversary of D-Day on the way to the airport, preparing to fly to Germany.
The Miss Montana C-47 participating in the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion has been unofficially dubbed '[the darling of the squadron' by pilot Bryan Douglass.