LC-USZ62-131713 (19864262393)

Jesse LeRoy Brown, with five other Naval Aviation Cadets, at graduation ceremonies held at Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, October 23, 1948. Brown was the first African-American to be designated as a Naval Aviator. He later lost his life during the Korean War when his plane was hit by enemy fire and crashed on December 4, 1950. Despite heroic efforts to save him by other aviators, he could not be rescued and died in his aircraft. Collection of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. (8/7/2015).

Date

2015

Photographer / author

National Museum of the U.S. Navy

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

3,648 × 2,919 pixels

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