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Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown, theEntry/Object ID
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xiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown by Theodore Taylor.
A portrait of a quiet hero, of the racial climate between 1926 and 1959, and of the last days of propeller-driven naval aviation. - Booklist
Jesse Leroy Brown was born in 1926 to sharecroppers in segregated southern USA.
Mr. Brown did advance flight training at Jax Naval Air Station in 1948. His wife, Daisy, was with him in Jacksonville. See chapter 18.Collection
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Brown, Jesse Leroy., African American fighter pilots -- Biography., United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.Publication Details
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Taylor, TheodoreEdition
1st Bluejacket Books ed.Publisher
Naval Institue PressPlace Published
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Annapolis, MDCall No.
V63 .B75 T39 2007ISBN
978-1-59114-852-4LCCN
2006027778