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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
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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