{"id":256,"date":"2019-11-06T19:24:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimaair.wpengine.com\/?post_type=hall_of_fame&#038;p=256"},"modified":"2019-12-30T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:34:40","slug":"gerald-brown","status":"publish","type":"hall_of_fame","link":"https:\/\/pimaair.org\/hall-of-fame\/gerald-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Gerald Brown<\/h1>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame<\/strong><br \/><strong><em><span style=\"color: #2387c3;\">Enshrined 1995<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gerald Brown was born in Globe, Arizona. A veteran of two wars, he received his U.S. Army Air Force commission in 1943 and went to England with the 55th Fighter Group. Flying P-38s, he became an ace by shooting down five enemy planes and damaging another. In 1944 he bailed out of a burning P-51, evaded German capture and was picked up by the World War II French Underground. 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