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CAPT Ronald Flanders (Ned)
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Brown, Jesse Leroy, ENS.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Hattiesburg
Last Address Hattiesburg
Casualty Date Dec 04, 1950
Cause KIA-Died of Wounds
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Korea, North
Conflict Korean War
Location of Interment Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Honolulu, Hawaii
Other Memories Chose OSU to follow in footsteps of childhood hero Jesse Owens. Despite racism, and general prevailing opinion that blacks could not succeed in advanced doctrine like flight, I was one of only 6 out of 100 Pensacola cadets to graduate and would become America's first black naval aviator.
