The Man Called Brown Condor: The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot by Simmons, Thomas E.

The Man Called Brown Condor: The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781620872178)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Man Called Brown Condor: The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot by Simmons, Thomas E.

The Man Called Brown Condor: The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot

$24.95
The Man Called Brown Condor: The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot by Simmons, Thomas E.

The Man Called Brown Condor: The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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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

Author: Thomas E. Simmons
ISBN-10: 162087217X
ISBN-13: 9781620872178
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2013
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.34w x 1.06d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2012 pg. 78
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2012
By Thomas E. Simmons
By Thomas E. Simmons
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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.

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