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Every Reason to Fail

The Unlikely Story of Miss Montana and the D-Day Squadron

by Bryan Douglass

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They said it couldn’t be done.
They were almost right.

2021 Readers Favorite Gold Award Winner
The mission seemed simple enough. Completely restore a 75-year-old historic DC-3 and fly her from Montana to France for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Starting with no volunteers and no money. In under a year. With a crew that had only a few hours of experience flying one. Ride along with author and pilot Bryan Douglass, the rest of the flight crew, the volunteers, paratroopers, World War II veterans, and others on this inspirational story of an impossible dream that almost didn’t come true. The underdog of the D-Day Squadron faced insurmountable odds, constant delays and a shortage of nearly everything except determination. The idea of crossing the north Atlantic in a 75-year-old, newly restored airplane only a few hours after her first flight would terrify most, but you’ll meet the people who believed it could be done. The transatlantic journey of the D-Day Squadron’s “Mighty Fifteen” was an incredible feat, but the story of Miss Montana is the best of them all. Laugh, cry, and be amazed as you get the entire inside story from a pilot who was there.

“The transatlantic journeys of the ‘mighty fifteen’ American C-47s and DC-3s of the D-Day Squadron alone ranks as one of the greatest feats in historic aviation to date, let alone their upcoming return to Normandy alongside the European contingent.” Vintage Aviation Echo June 2, 2019

“While I was working to get the D-Day Squadron across the Atlantic, an army of volunteers in Montana—with almost no DC-3 experience—was working to get one off the ground. But if anyone could pull it off, they could.” Eric Zipkin, Founder of the D-Day Squadron

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Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 340 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (May 13, 2020)
ISBN10: 1977225748
ISBN13: 9781977225740
Genre: HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space

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Bryan DouglassBryan Douglass was one of the originators of the Miss Montana to Normandy project and one of the pilots who made the entire trip to Europe and back. A private pilot since 2008, he is an engineer for his day job and lives in Missoula, Montana with his wife Dawn and two Labradors.
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