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by Theodore Taylor
William Morrow  1998
Hardcover
300 pages
Index, photos
ISBN: 978-0380976898

Language: English

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The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown


This book is a biography of Jesse Leroy Brown, first African-American pilot in the U.S. Navy (USN) and the first black naval officer to lose his life in combat in the Korean War on December 4, 1950 piloting F4U-4 Corsair 97231 that crash landed west of the Chosin Reservoir and was trapped in the cockpit and died. This book was reprinted by Bluejacket Books in 2007 and a kindle edition by Open Road Media in 2002.

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September 21, 2023


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