P-51D-30 MUSTANG
CFS3 - V4.00.164

This aircraft was built by Gregory SARGE Pierson using version 4.00.164 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process.  It is based on the MS stock P-51 and has been repainted by John BRAVO/4 Whelan as the Red Tailed BUNNIE flown by Captain Roscoe C. Brown, Jr.

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Captain Brown commanded the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group (the "Tuskegee Airmen") in World War II, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with eight Oak Leaf Clusters.

Captain Brown was a part of the March 24, 1945 59 plane Mission led by Col. Davis escorting bombers  B-17 and B-24 of the 115th Air force on their longest raid of 1600 miles round trip to attack the Daimler -Benz tank works in the out skirts of Berlin. On this mission., while over  Berlin the bombers were attacked by the Germans latest fighter air craft the Me-262 and rocket powered ME 163 fighter aircraft.

During the ensuing "Dog fight" to protect the bombers, Captain Brown destroyed  a ME-262 becoming the first to shoot down a jet with a conventional aircraft.

Today Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. Ph.D, is the Director of the Center for Urban Education Policy and University Professor at the Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York, is past President of Bronx Community College of CUNY, and was formerly Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs at New York University.

He holds a doctorate from New York University, and has served on faculty at West Virginia State College and as a full professor at New York University's School of Education. A native of Washington, D.C., Dr. Brown is a graduate of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School and received his Bachelor's degree from Springfield College in Massachusetts.