Jesse Brown

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GLC#
GLC10110
Type
Images
Date
1948
Title
Jesse Brown
Place Written
Jacksonville, Florida
Pagination
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
Postwar Politics and the Cold War

One photograph of Midshipman Jesse L. Brown, US Navy dated October 1948. Photographed at Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, while serving as a Naval Aviation Cadet. Brown was the first African American to complete Navy flight training. Jesse Brown was a hero fighter pilot and was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and also the first African American naval officer killed in the Korean War.

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