| LC control no. | n 98047646 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brown, Jesse Leroy |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19261013 |
| Death date | 19501204 |
| Place of birth | Hattiesburg (Miss.) |
| Place of death | Changjin Reservoir (Korea) |
| Affiliation | Ohio State University Naval Air Station Glenview (Ill.) Naval Air Station Pensacola (Fla.) Naval Air Station Jacksonville (Fla.) Leyte (Aircraft carrier) |
| Profession or occupation | Airmen |
| Found in | The flight of Jesse Leroy Brown, 1998: CIP t.p. (Jesse Leroy Brown) data sheet (1st African American Naval aviator) African American National Biography, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Brown, Jesse Leroy; naval aviator; born 13 October 1926 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; enrolled at Ohio State University, majored in engineering and joined the track team; joined a navy V-5 program at the University; passed all tests, entered into the Naval Air Training Command in Glenview, Illinois; continued at Pensacola, Florida, Naval Air Station; made his first carrier landing on the USS Wright in the Gulf of Mexico (1948) flying an SNJ trainer; won his gold wings at Jacksonville Naval Air Station (1948); left for Quonset Point, Rhode Island, for his first assignment as a fighter pilot with Squadron 32 on the USS Leyte (1949); began flying a Corsair, the navy's "killer" aircraft of World War II (1949); died 04 December 1950 in Chosin Reservoir, North Korea; the commanding officer ordered two divisions to give Jesse Brown a "warrior's funeral") |
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