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428-GX-USN-1160767: Navy Aviation Officer Candidate Jill Brown, 1974

428-GX-USN-1160767: Navy Aviation Officer Candidate Jill Brown, 1974. Hyattsville, Maryland. Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, Spann Watson swears in Aviation Officer Candidate Jill Brown. Twenty-four year-old Miss Brown was the first black woman to qualify for training as a military pilot. Watson is an Air Traffic Specialist with the Federal Aviation Administration and uses his extracurricular energy to encourage more African-Americans to enter the field of Aviation. Photographed by PHC James E. Markham, received January 1975. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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Caption: 428-GX-USN-1160767: Navy Aviation Officer Candidate Jill Brown, 1974. Hyattsville, Maryland. Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, Spann Watson swears in Aviation Officer Candidate Jill Brown. Twenty-four year-old Miss Brown was the first black woman to qualify for training as a military pilot. Watson is an Air Traffic Specialist with the Federal Aviation Administration and uses his extracurricular energy to encourage more African-Americans to enter the field of Aviation. Photographed by PHC James E. Markham, received January 1975. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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