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mahatmakanejeeves

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2. There's a video of the Miss Montana flyover in this thread:

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Sat Sep 14, 2019, 01:43 PM

Sep 2019

Beloved vintage DC-3, the Miss Montana, to fly to the Bahamas carrying donations.

That is fascinating!

What a colorful history the DC-3 has. From WWII to wild land fire fighting. Miss Montana flew spoke jumpers into Mann Gulch 70 years ago. 13 of those fire fighters died on that fateful mission. She flew over Mann Gulch on the anniversary of that mission and dropped 13 wreaths on the site.

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Young Men and Fire. Seventy years ago this week: August 5, 1949, the Mann Gulch fire. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2019 OP

Lessons learned from the Mann Gulch tragedy mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2019 #1

There's a video of the Miss Montana flyover in this thread: mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2019 #2

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