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Life well lived: Tuskegee airman Roscoe Brown

Roscoe Brown is credited as being the first African-American pilot to shoot down a German plane in World War II. After joining the segregated Army Air Corps, he would go on to be a professor, college president and leader in education reform. Roscoe Brown was 94 years old. (Run time: 1:12)
/ Source: TODAY

Roscoe Brown is credited as being the first African-American pilot to shoot down a German plane in World War II. After joining the segregated Army Air Corps, he would go on to be a professor, college president and leader in education reform. Roscoe Brown was 94 years old. (Run time: 1:12)