| 词条 | Sydney MacGillvary Brown |
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| name = Sydney MacGillvary Brown | image = Sydney MacGillvary Brown.jpg | image_size = 250 | caption = Sydney M. Brown in 1918 | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1895|8|10}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1952|4|7|1895|8|10}} | placeofburial_label = | placeofburial = | birth_place = Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States | death_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA | placeofburial_coordinates = | nickname = | allegiance = United Kingdom United States | branch = Royal Air Force United States Navy | serviceyears = 1917–1918 1942–1945 | rank = Lieutenant (RAF) Lieutenant-Commander (USN) | unit = No. 29 Squadron RAF | commands = | battles = World War I World War II | awards = Distinguished Flying Cross Croix de Guerre (France) | relations = | laterwork = Author and professor of medieval history }}Sydney MacGillvary Brown {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DFC}} (10 August 1895 – 7 April 1952) was an American World War I flying ace, who later became an author and professor of medieval history.[1] BiographyBrown was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he was member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.[2] He graduated in 1916, delivering an address at the commencement ceremony.[3] World War IBrown joined the Royal Flying Corps in July 1917,[4] and was appointed a temporary second lieutenant (on probation) on 12 January 1918.[1] On 4 July 1918, he was assigned to No. 29 Squadron, flying the SE.5a. He destroyed a Fokker D.VII on 12 August 1918, a DFW reconnaissance plane on the 19th, another Fokker D.VII on 28 September, an observation balloon on 27 October 1918, and a third D.VII on the 28th.[4] In February 1919 he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. His citation read: Second Lieutenant Sydney MacGillvary Brown. On 28 October, when on offensive patrol, this officer, in company with three other machines, attacked nine Fokkers; three of the latter were destroyed, 2nd Lieut. Brown accounting for one. In addition, he has three hostile aircraft and one balloon to his credit. He is a fearless and intrepid officer.[5] Later careerBrown returned to his academic career after the war, attending Oxford University.[1] In 1922 he was appointed Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,[6] where he taught for the next twenty years.[2] Brown was awarded a Master of Arts degree by Oxford in 1927, and received his Ph.D in 1937.[7] During World War II Brown served in the United States Navy Reserve as an aerial navigation officer[1] in Britain and Italy,[2] with the rank of lieutenant-commander.[1] In 1947 he was appointed an associate professor of medieval history at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. He died on 7 April 1952 at the Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh.[1] Publications
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1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/brown6.php |title=Sydney Brown |publisher=The Aerodrome |year=2014 |accessdate=23 September 2014}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web |url= http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/newspaper-articles/33588-duquesne-u-professor-dies%3B-noted-historian.html |title=Duquesne U. Professor Dies; Noted Historian |work=The Aerodrome |date=10 April 1952 |accessdate=23 September 2014}} 3. ^{{cite web |url= http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/collections/college-archives-and-records-management/bowdoin-commencement-speakers.shtml |title=Bowdoin Commencement Speakers |work=George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives |year=2014 |accessdate=23 September 2014}} 4. ^1 Shores et.al. (1997), p.90. 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=31170 |date=7 February 1919 |page=2036 |nolink=yes }} 6. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.lehigh.edu/library/speccoll/lehigh-history-chronology-1864-1993.pdf |title=History of Lehigh University 1864-1993 |work=Lehigh University |year=2014 |accessdate=23 September 2014}} 7. ^{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/duquesneuniversi40duqu#page/n13/mode/2up/search/sydney |title=The Duquesne University Bulletin |volume=XL |number=1 |date=January 1952 |page=8 |accessdate=23 September 2014}}
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