Got a print for Christmas!

[Jerry O'Neill]

Got this for Christmas! Still have to frame it though!
Jerry

Here's the story...
Devotion
Wingmen to the End - December 4, 1950

During the battle of the Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War . . . hit by anti-aircraft fire while supporting the Marines, Ens. Jesse Brown, the Navy’s first African-American aviator, crashed behind enemy lines. His squadron mates from VF-32 thought Brown was dead—until they saw him slide back his canopy and wave. But, Brown did not climb free—he was pinned in his Corsair’s burning wreckage. While his comrades called for a rescue helicopter and circled to ward off any enemy troops, Brown’s wingman, Lt. Thomas Hudner, intentionally crash-landed in that treacherous terrain to try to save his friend.

Wading through snow and subzero temperatures, Hudner reached Brown’s plane and tried to pull him free, but the snow denied him any footing. Brown remained calm, inspiring Hudner. Hudner gave Brown his hat and gloves then used snow, shoveled with his bare hands, to snuff out the fire. When the rescue helicopter arrived, its pilot joined Hudner. Even working together, they could not free Brown, whose leg was pinned and who was in shock. As daylight faded, with Hudner at his side, Jesse Brown passed away. The rescue helo lifted Hudner, exhausted, from the scene.

Four months later, President Truman summoned Hudner and Jesse Brown’s widow, Daisy, to the White House where he awarded Hudner the Medal of Honor. That day, they all remembered Jesse Brown, a hero who did not die alone.

[APG85]

Neat print and awesome story...!

[Lynn Allen]

Sweet, that looks like a must have print. Guess I better give Virginia Bader a call...

Lynn

[cooper9411]

Awesome print. Warbird Digest #39 has a story about this.

[spookythecat]

It's great to have a restoration out there telling this amazing story as well.

[Pat Carry]

Now that is a nice print. I have several aviation prints hanging out on the walls of my house. I would like to get some additional 1's but there is no space left.

[Mudge]

Now that is a nice print. I have several aviation prints hanging out on the walls of my house. I would like to get some additional 1's but there is no space left.

My problem exactly.

Mudge the collector

[Jerry O'Neill]

Space is my problem too! I just rotate them occasionally.

[Pat Carry]

These 2 prints I think are very kool and would like good in my house if I were to divide the dining room in half by building another wall to give me more wall space: http://www.valorstudios.com/In-the-pres ... -enemy.htm and this one I really like http://www.valorstudios.com/defenders-of-bastogne.htm

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[JohnTerrell]

At Reno in 2011, Thomas Hudner met up with Doug Mathews and Doug's Corsair, which had only just debuted earlier that year painted up in the colors of the Corsair that Hudner was flying on that mission. Here is a nice little article with some photos from that event (as was also reported by Warbird Digest): http://militaryaviationjournal.com/2012 ... er-ret.htm

[Wildchild]

Anyone know what happened to the aircraft and the remains of Ens. Brown?

[Warbird Kid]

If I'm not mistaken these are the Corsairs in question:





http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/pyongyangmuseum&page=all

[cooper9411]

Anyone know what happened to the aircraft and the remains of Ens. Brown?

The story reads as follows: "Three days later four F4U Corsairs swung in low and made their final run in on the two wrecked planes. Each one was fully loaded and committed as the targets came into view. On the command by the flight leader, they dropped their napalm tanks in unison as thick yellow flame engulfed the entire area. Ensign Jesse L. Brown's funeral pyre burned bright over the North Korean soil." As told by Thomas J. Hudner, Captain USN (ret.)

[Mark Allen M]

Great story and a real nice print.


F4U-4 of VF-32 at Harbor Field MD 1949

[Wildchild]

Shouldn't those Corsair's be returned to the states..... Well, at least Jesse's since it's a war grave...