Roscoe Brown, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Tuskagee airman
Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1922
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Date of Death: 02-Jul-2016
Profession: aircraft pilot
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Roscoe Brown
- Roscoe Conkling Brown Jr.
- (March 9, 1922 – July 2, 2016) was one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a squadron commander of the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group He was appointed to this position in June 1945, which was after V-E Day (May 8, 1945).
- During combat, he served as a flight leader and operations officer only.
- He graduated from the Tuskegee Flight School on March 12, 1944 as member of class 44-C-SE and served in the U.S.
- Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II.
- During this period, Captain Brown shot down an advanced German Me 262 jet fighter and a FW-190 fighter.
- He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Brown was born in Washington, D.C.
- in 1922.
- His father, Roscoe C.
- Brown Sr.
- (1884–1963), was a dentist and an official in the United States Public Health Service who was born as George Brown and had changed his name to honor Roscoe Conkling, a strong supporter of the rights of African Americans during Reconstruction.
- His mother was the former Vivian Berry, a teacher.Prior to his wartime service, he graduated from Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was valedictorian of the Class of 1943.After the war, Captain Brown resumed his education.
- His doctoral dissertation was on exercise physiology and he became a professor at New York University and directed their Institute of Afro-American Affairs.
- He was President of Bronx Community College from 1977 to 1993 and then director for the Center for Education Policy at the City University of New York.
- In 1992, Brown received an honorary doctor of humanics degree from his alma mater, Springfield College. On March 29, 2007, Brown attended a ceremony in the U.S.
- Capitol rotunda, where he and the other Tuskegee Airmen collectively, not individually, were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of their service.He was also a member and past president of the 100 Black Men of America New York Chapter.
- and professor of Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center.
- Brown died on July 2, 2016 at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y.
- at the age of 94.
- He had resided in Riverdale in his latter years.
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