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Jesse LeRoy Brown (October 13, 1926 – December 4, 1950) was a United States Navy officer. He was the first African-American aviator to complete the United States Navy's basic flight training program (though not the first African-American Navy aviator), the first African-American naval officer killed in the Korean War, and a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Thomas Jerome Hudner Jr. (August 31, 1924 – November 13, 2017) was a United States Navy officer and naval aviator.He rose to the rank of captain, and received the Medal of Honor for his actions in trying to save the life of his wingman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War.
Lieutenant Thomas J. Hudner, Jr., flying an F4U-4 of VF-32 off USS Leyte, was awarded the Medal of Honor for crash landing his Corsair in an attempt to rescue his squadron mate, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, whose aircraft had been forced down by antiaircraft fire near Changjin. Brown, who did not survive the incident, was the U.S. Navy's first ...
May 13—Local officials and Navy personnel gathered Friday at Naval Air Station Meridian to dedicate the station's hangar in honor of the first African-American naval aviator, Ensign Jesse L. Brown.
[44] [45] It is in the markings of an F4U-4 flown by LTjg Jesse L. Brown, the first African-American Naval Aviator to see combat. He flew with VF-32 off the USS Leyte during the Korean War. Brown was shot down over North Korea during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
USS Jesse L. Brown (DE/FF/FFT-1089) was a Knox-class frigate of the United States Navy. She was named for Jesse L. Brown , the first African-American naval aviator in the U.S. Navy. The ship was eventually decommissioned and sold to the Egyptian Navy and was renamed Damiyat ( F961 ).
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English: U.S. Navy Ensign Jesse L. Brown in the cockpit of a Vought F4U-4 Corsair of Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Leyte (CV-32), in 1950. He was the first African-American to be trained by the U.S. Navy as a naval aviator, and such, became the first African-American naval aviator to see combat and the first to be killed (on 4 December 1950).