Tag: Helena Montana
At just 19 years old, he conquered Montana’s Continental Divide in a fragile airplane, won $10,000, and became an aviation legend. Two days later, he was gone. On September 30, 1911, a 19-year-old pilot climbed into an airplane made largely of wood, bamboo, wire, and fabric at the Montana State Fairgrounds in Helena. His destination…
The Montana Crucible: How Helena Forged the World’s Elite Mountain Commandos (1942–1944) The Strategic Choice: Why Helena? Helena, Montana, wasn’t picked by accident. In 1942, Allied war planners were frantic about the possibility of Nazi Germany developing atomic weapons using heavy water from Norwegian hydro plants. To stop them, Lord Mountbatten and his crew—including the…
