When a Pilot Crashed His Plane to Save a Friend

Join our memberships to get exclusive perks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-f2WBfSCZiu0bOBydjot3w/join Incredible merch at https://yarnhubstore.com/collections/f4u-corsair Discount code? join our discord https://discord.gg/yarnhub to get a discount code in the announcements section. Thanks to Adam Makos for helping us with this film. Please check out their site where Yarnhub viewers can get 25% off books and artwork signed by Tom Hudner using the promo code YARNHUB or clicking the link https://www.valorstudios.com/discount/YARNHUB It’s the 4th of December 1950 and 6 F4U Corsairs of Fighter Squadron 32 fly low over the snow-topped mountains of North Korea. At the controls of two of the fighters are aviators Thomas J. Hudner and Jesse LeRoy Brown. They are brothers in arms and best friends on a mission to protect US Marines against Chinese advance. But suddenly the mission takes a turn for the worse with a single transmission. “Jesse, you are streaming something. It looks as if you are streaming fuel.” Tom turns his attention to his friend’s aircraft and is concerned to see a trail of liquid leaking from behind the aircraft. Aboard the stricken Corsair, Jesse is quick to confirm the men’s fears. “Yes, I am losing fuel. And I don’t know how long I’ll be able to stay up.” What happened next was an incredible act of bravery where Tom would deliberately put his plane down on a mountainside in hostile territory to try and save his friend. Yarnhub uses the Unreal® Engine. Unreal® is a trademark or registered trademark of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States of America and elsewhere. “Unreal® Engine, Copyright 1998 – 2023, Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved.