He got a "refresher course" Friday in piloting a P-51 Mustang at Republic Airport in Farmingdale. The fighter plane is similar to one he flew during World War II when he shot down a Nazi plane.
Brown flew 68 missions, shot down two enemy planes and completed more than a dozen ground attacks during the war. The Tuskegee Airmen were black military pilots who flew and fought from 1942 to 1946.
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