The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WILBUR E. BROWN, RADIO OPERATOR ON A FLYING FORTRESS, TWICE UNHESITATINGLY FACED DEATH IN ORDER TO RESCUE COMRADES WHO HAD BEEN INJURED DURING ENGAGEMENTS. IN RARIFIED ATMOSPHERE AT OVER TWENTY THOUSAND FEET WHERE TO BE WITHOUT OXYGEN FOR MORE THAN A FEW SECONDS PRODUCES UNCONSCIOUSNESS, BROWN ON EACH OCCASION DISCARDED HIS OXYGEN MASK, WENT TO HIS COMRADES AND DRAGGED THEM TWENTY FEET TO HIS CABIN. CAPTAIN J.W. BLEASDALE, THE PILOT OF THE GIANT MACHINE, DECLARED THAT THEY WERE TWO OF THE MOST COURAGEOUS ACTS THAT HAD OCCURRED IN THE AIR WAR. BROWN, WHO COMES FROM SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, WAS A PRIVATE AT THAT TIME BUT HAS SINCE BEEN PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF SERGEANT. CAPTAIN J.W. BLEASDALE, PILOT OF THE FLYING FORTRESS AND SERGEANT BROWN MAKE A BROADCAST OF BROWN'S EXPLOITS FOR THE ABC LEFT TO RIGHT: SERGEANT BROWN, CHESTER WILMOT, ABC COMMENTATOR AND WAR CORRESPONDENT, AND CAPTAIN BLEASDALE.
WILBUR E. BROWN, RADIO OPERATOR ON A FLYING FORTRESS, TWICE UNHESITATINGLY FACED DEATH IN ORDER TO RESCUE COMRADES WHO HAD BEEN INJURED DURING ENGAGEMENTS. IN RARIFIED ATMOSPHERE AT OVER TWENTY THOUSA
Sergeant (Sgt) Wilbur E Brown, USAAF, radio operator on a Boeing B17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber aircraft, twice unhesitatingly faced death in order to rescue two comrades who had been injured during
Informal portrait of Sergeant Wilbur E Brown, United States Army Air Corps, a radio operator on a Boeing B17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft who is credited with saving the lives of two other members
ALTHOUGH HE HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER POST SERGEANT BROWN STILL HAS MUCH AFFECTION FOR THE FLYING FORTRESS THAT TOOK HIM ON MANY MISSIONS. (NEGATIVE BY D. PARER).
Bacchus Marsh, Vic. 26 May 1943. Crash site and pieces of wreckage from No. 79 Squadron RAAF Spitfire Mk Vc EE834 aircraft, about twelve miles south-west of Bacchus Marsh. The pilot, 412397 Sergeant D
Bacchus Marsh, Vic. 26 May 1943. Crash site and pieces of wreckage from No. 79 Squadron RAAF Spitfire Mk Vc EE834 aircraft, about twelve miles south-west of Bacchus Marsh. The pilot, 412397 Sergeant D
