Just over two years approved pharmacy Brown holds a special place in U.S. military history: In 1948, just after the U.S. armed forces were desegregated, the young man from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, became the first black American to earn his Navy wings. The unlikely friendship and brotherhood between the sharecropper's son and his white wingman is the focus of upcoming book by Adam Makos, who accompanied Hudner on the trip to North Korea.