Thomas E Simmons

The Man Called Brown Condor

The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot

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Produktbeschreibung

"All New York Greets Pilot on Arrival" "Newsmen Get Lowdown on African War from Colonel John C. Robinson" "Pioneered Aviation in Chicago--Started Air School" "Colonel Robinson, Brown Condor, Returns Home" "Gangway for the Brown Condor" "Crowds Wait on War Hero" "There has never been such a demonstration as was accorded the thirty-one-year-old Chicago aviator who left the United States thirteen months ago and literally covered himself in glory trying to preserve the independence of the last African empire. There are reports that he will be joining the faculty of Tuskegee Institute to teach aviation." --The Chicago Defender newspaper on John C. Robinson's heroic return to America, where he was greeted by a crowd of twenty-thousand supporters in the streets of Chicago

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Skyhorse Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781620872178
• ISBN-10: 162087217X
• Artikelnr.: 35427404

Autorenporträt

Thomas E. Simmons grew up in Mississippi and attended the Marion Military Institute, the U. S. Naval Academy, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Alabama. He served as commercial captain of a seventy-foot sailing vessel, has been a pilot since the age of sixteen, has flown professionally, and participated in air shows flying aerobatics in open-cockpit biplanes. In 1960, he served as an artillery officer in Korea. He and his wife live in Gulfport, Mississippi.