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Name: Devotion
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Adam Makos

Devotion is a documented biography of Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, the U.S. Navy’s most celebrated aviator pair. Adam Makos traces their beginnings—from Hudner’s decision to forgo Harvard for flight school to Brown’s breakthrough as the Navy’s first African‑American carrier pilot. The book details their training aboard aircraft carriers, their service in the Mediterranean with Fleet Marines, and ultimately their heroic aerial missions in the Korean War. While the combat world pushed them to the extremes of aerial warfare, Hudner and Brown’s bond, forged amid segregation and wartime pressures, culminates in a daring rescue that underscores the profound depths of friendship and duty.

First publish date: 2015

Genre: History/Military History

Authors: Adam Makos

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