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	Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Dr. Harold H. Brown
Description	BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Harold H. Brown was born in 1924 in Minnesota. He volunteered for the Army Air Corps in 1943 and passed air cadet qualifying tests. Brown was shipped overseas to be part of a segregated fighter group, the Red Tailed Angels, stationed in Italy. In 1945, Brown's plane was shot down in Austria. He was captured by the Germans and later liberated by advancing Allied forces. Brown remained in the Air Corps (after 1947, the Air Force) after World War II, served in Korea, and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Decision to join the Army Air Corps; serving in a segregated unit; flying bomber escort missions in Europe; being shot down in a mission near Linz, Austria; experience of being taken a Prisoner of War in Germany; interactions with German civilians and soldiers; interrogation procedures he went through in prison camps; surviving in POW camp Stalag VII-A for two months; conditions in which the Allied POWs lived; first experience of integration in a POW camp; becoming free after American forces came; repatriation for POWs after being freed; returning home after the end of the war.
Quantity	3 hours sound cassette 56 pages transcript
Format	Content Category: sound recordings Content Category: text
Measurements	161 minutes length
Creation	Interviewee: Brown, Harold Ph.D. Interviewer: Saylor, Thomas Made in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
Subjects	Made in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
Dates	Creation: 07/12/2003
Holding Type	Oral History - Interview
Identifiers	OH 112
Accession Number	AV2006.1.4
More Info	MHS Library Catalog
Related Collections	Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I'