Keywords: 428-GX-USN-1160768: Hyattsville, Maryland. Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Spann Wilson, right, congratulates just sown in aviation officer candidate Jill Brown. Twenty-four-year-old Miss Brown is the first African-American to qualify for training as a military pilot. Looking on are Miss Brown’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Brown. Photographed by PHC James E. Markham, received January 1975. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/04/19). 428-GX-USN-1160768: Hyattsville, Maryland. Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Spann Wilson, right, congratulates just sown in aviation officer candidate Jill Brown. Twenty-four-year-old Miss Brown is the first African-American to qualify for training as a military pilot. Looking on are Miss Brown’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Brown. Photographed by PHC James E. Markham, received January 1975. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/04/19). |