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Dedicated to the forgotten guys from the forgotten war — who changed history
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    • Whence the Term "Brown Shoes"
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    • The Holloway Plan
      • The Flying Midshipmen - a note
      • James Lemuel Holloway III: (Chief of Naval Operations, 1974-1978)
      • Herb Sargent
      • Walter Thomas
    • Navy Flight Training
    • The Korean War
      • The Beginning
      • The Division
      • The Hushed Up MiG Encounter
      • The Revolt of the Admirals
    • The Vietnam War
    • The Cold War
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    • Individuals and Their Stories
    • Once a Jock – Tales from the Aviation Midshipmen Log
    • The Squadrons
    • New Stuff’
  • A Few Poems
    • Kill Devil Hill
    • Reunion
    • Ode to a Hose-Nose
    • Hawg Riders in the Sky
    • Ode to a Catapult
    • The Maintenance Man
    • Welcome Essex
    • Don't Buy for Me: Car Too Teeny
    • Saga of the Drafting Room
    • To All Who Seek a Refuge
    • Letter from Benjamin Franklin
    • Ode to a Naval Flier
    • Reunion - VF-781 56th Anniversary
    • Remember Lt. Mano
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    Charles J. “Coby” O’Brien

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The Brown Shoes

This is the generation the historians forgot to write about. This generation was in “the golden age” of aviation. The earliest trained in burlap and bailing wire N2S trainers. The last flew supersonic aircraft.  These men are now passing into history — their stories are recorded in these pages.

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  • Address:
    The Brown Shoes Project
    228 Unity Court
    Suffolk, VA 23434

  • Phone: (757) 923-5575

  • Email: avmidn@aol.com

About The Project

The Brown Shoes Project operates under the aegis of the §501(c)(3) tax-exempt Alumni Association Fund of the University of Virginia.

It is funded by the support of those interested in the collection and categorization of these resources.

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