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THE FLIGHT OF JESSE LEROY BROWN
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| By: |
Theodore Taylor |
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Paperback |
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£22.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1591148529 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781591148524 |
| Publisher: |
NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2007 |
| Pages: |
300 |
| Synopsis: |
Jesse Leroy Brown was born in 1926 to sharecroppers in the segregated southern USA. An outstanding student and a top athlete, he set his sights on becoming a Navy pilot despite the resistance of his family and the Jim Crow laws. Brown qualified for the Navy reserve and was accepted into the Naval Air Training School at Glenview, Illinois. He was the first black man to enter the program, and went on to become the first black man to fly a Navy fighter and make a carrier landing. During the Korean War his squadron operated from USS Leyte, and Brown flew F4U-4 Corsair fighters in support of United Nations forces. Tragically, on 4 December 1950, Jesse Brown was shot down while on a close air support mission and, despite the heroic attempts of other pilots to rescue him, he died in his aircraft. Based on archival documents and interviews with those who knew Brown, "The Flight of Leroy Brown" is both a stirring story of a man breaking historic racial barriers and a thrilling tale of naval carrier aviation and combat. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Naval Institute Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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