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The Man Called Brown Condor
The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot
Thomas E. Simmons
Skyhorse · Print & ebook · February 7, 2013
Reading lane: Military Aviation
How did a black child, growing up in segregationist Mississippi during the early 1900s, become the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Corps during the brutal Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935?
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Book Details
- Authors
- Thomas E. Simmons
- Publisher
- Skyhorse
- Published
- February 7, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Military Aviation · Aviation History
- Reading lane
- Military Aviation
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Publisher Categories
Military Lives
World War II History
Military Aviation
Black History
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African American Studies
Race & Discrimination
Aviation History
About This Book
How did a black child, growing up in segregationist Mississippi during the early 1900s, become the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Corps during the brutal Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935? In this gripping, never-before-told tale, biographer Thoma
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