When he first meets up with Hudner, a straight-arrow new recruit, Brown proceeds to form a respectful if cautiously arm’s-length friendship with the Annapolis graduate.Ī man who contends he’s never met a plane he couldn’t land, Brown begins to doubt his claim when he first climbs into a Vought F4U Corsair, which has earned the ominous nickname “Widow Maker” due in part to its long nose, which obscured visibility, and a tendency to bounce uncontrollably on landing. Navy’s basic flight training program doesn’t exactly go unnoticed he constantly finds himself brushing off both pointed and casually racist remarks from his fellow officers. Navy’s Blue Angels squadron) with a great deal of respect but insufficient dramatic depth.įive years have passed since the end of World War II, and, this being 1950, Ensign Brown’s presence in the U.S. Dillard (himself the son of only the second African American member of the U.S.
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