File:Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat of VF-32 in flight, in 1949 (80-G-401541).jpg
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English: A U.S. Navy Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat of Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32) "Swordsmen" in flight, in 1949. VF-32 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 3 (CVG-3) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Leyte (CV-32). The pilot of the plane is Jesse Leroy Brown. He was the first African-American to be trained by the U.S. Navy as a naval aviator, and such, became the first African-American naval aviator to see combat and the first to be killed (on 4 December 1950). |
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| current | 21:04, 9 December 2020 | | 3,743 × 2,775 (5.63 MB) | Cobatfor (talk | contribs) | similar photo to avoid triplication of File:Ensign Jesse L. Brown, USN, in a Vought F4U-4 Corsair, in 1950 (USN 1146845).jpg |
| 05:38, 22 October 2009 |  | 2,970 × 2,394 (289 KB) | BotMultichillT (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Navy Historical Center, Washington, D.C. -- Historical file photo of Ensign Jesse L. Brown, seated in the cockpit of an F4U-4 Corsair Fighter plane, the U.S. Navy’s first black naval aviator. |
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