Harold Brown (Tuskegee Airman)

Following his retirement from the military, Brown earned a doctorate degree and became vice-president of academic affairs at Columbus State Community College. He retired from academia in 1986. Brown and his wife wrote Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman, a memoir about his World War II service, and published it in 2017.

Brown retired from the Air Force in 1965 at the rank of lieutenant colonel.

In 1965 Brown attended Ohio State University and earned a mathematics degree and a Doctorate in Education. He ultimately held the position of Vice President at Columbus State Community College.

At 19 years old, on May 23, 1944, Brown graduated from flight school as a 2nd Lieutenant.

Brown graduated from high school In June 1942, at just seventeen years old, he graduated from North High School (Minneapolis).

Harold H. Brown (born August 19, 1924) is a retired U.S. Army Air Force officer who served during World War II as a combat fighter pilot with the 332nd Fighter Group, best known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Brown's P-51C aircraft was shot down in the European Theatre of World War II and he became a prisoner of war.

Brown was born August 19, 1924 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In his autobiography Keep your Airpseed Up Brown says he developed a passion for flying as a teen. Brown claims to have read everything he could at the local library, about airplanes. He claims that two major influences on his passion for flying were the book The Life of an Army Corps Cadet: Randolph field, west Point of the Air, and a 1938 movie called The Dawn Patrol. He saved up $35 for flying lessons in a Piper J-3 Cub and at $7 a lesson he ran out of money before completing the program.