Devotion: an epic story of heroism, friendship, and sacrifice

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" Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi, Jesse became the Navy's first black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn't even serve him in a bar. While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32. Adam Makos takes us into the cockpit as these bold young aviators cut their teeth at the world's most dangerous job-- landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Then comes the war no one expected, in faraway Korea. Devotion takes us soaring overhead with Tom and Jesse, and into the foxholes with Red and the Marines as they battle a North Korean invasion. As the fury of the fighting escalates and the Marines are cornered at the Chosin Reservoir, Tom and Jesse fly, guns blazing, to try and save them. When one of the duo is shot down behind enemy lines and pinned in his burning plane, the other faces an unthinkable choice: watch his friend die or attempt history's most audacious one-man rescue mission." --Provided by publisher.
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African American fighter pilots -- Biography
Brown, Jesse Leroy
Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography
Hudner, Tom, -- 1924-2017
Interracial friendship
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Campaigns -- Korea (North) -- Changjin Reservoir
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- United States -- Biography
Rescues -- Korea (North) -- Changjin Reservoir -- History -- 20th century
United States. -- Navy -- African Americans -- Biography
United States. -- Navy -- Officers -- Biography
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Devotion : an epic story of heroism, friendship, and sacrifice
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Devotion
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an epic story of heroism, friendship, and sacrifice
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African American fighter pilots
African Americans
Brown, Jesse Leroy
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Fighter pilots
History
Hudner, Tom
Interracial friendship
Korean War, 1950-1953
Officers
Rescues

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