Former Congresswoman Val Demings

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Former Congresswoman Val Demings @RepValDemings

Brown became the Navy's first Black pilot. Then, on 4 December 1950, Brown was part of a search and destroy mission in Korea when his plane was damaged. He crashed, pinned beneath his aircraft in sub-zero weather. His flightmates assumed he had been killed, then saw him waving. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 5, 2022

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Former Congresswoman Val Demings @RepValDemings

One trainer, Roland Christensen, befriended the lone Black recruit and volunteered to teach him. They remained friends long after. "I'm trying to get accepted into this place here," Brown wrote in one letter to Christensen after a transfer. "I guess that I shall, finally." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 5, 2022

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Former Congresswoman Val Demings @RepValDemings

In an act of immense courage, flightmate Tom Hudner intentionally crash landed his own plane to get to his fellow pilot. "If it wasn't Jesse down there, I don't know if I'd have taken the chance I did," he said. "Jesse would have done the same thing." https://t.co/rR3bICzYgI — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 5, 2022