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Thomas G. Brown | Veterans Memorial Hall

Thomas G. Brown

Era: World War II

Military Branch: Army

Mr. Brown served during World War II, in the U.S. Army Air Forces in North Africa (the European Theater) and in the United States.

He served initially as a flight radio officer and later was in charge of bombsight care, which included setting up an overhaul base for Norden sights near the Suez Canal and equipping an instrument trailer to repair Norden sights in the desert.

Mr. Brown grew up in Duluth, MN and graduated from Duluth Central High School.

Source: Duluth News-Tribune, Sunday, March 12, 1944 (see below)

Article: “Duluthian Repaired Famed Bombsights in Flight Areas”

After gaining first-hand experience at the battlefront, a former Duluthian, Thomas G. Brown, is now a technician helping to turn out Norden bombsights, the famed precision instrument which has helped American fliers roll up their amazing accuracy record.

Brown made his home with Mrs. C. F. McComb, 2019 East Second Street, and the late Dr. McComb.

According to an article about Brown in the Norden laboratory paper, “Insight,” he went overseas in May, 1943, as a flight radio officer for the Douglas Aircraft Co. He was one of the skilled workers in the background who contributed greatly to the Allied successes in North Africa.

His duties were primarily concerned with radio at first. It was his job to establish and maintain communication systems and maintain and repair flight instruments. Bombsight care, however, became more and more important, and eventually the task of setting up an overhaul base for Norden sights near the Suez Canal was given to Brown. Later he equipped an instrument trailer to repair Norden sights in the desert.

For several months Brown worked as a member of the desert unit of the Ninth air force. He visited most of the major campaign sites of the North African campaign, including, Tobruk, Benghazi, Casablanca, Tunis, Algiers, Tripoli and El Alamein.

Brown was recalled to this country recently and is now working in the Norden laboratories. He attended Duluth Central high school. He is married and has a daughter. Both are with him in New York.

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