Jerry Brown

Season 13 • Episode 6

Meet Our People – The Enduring Spirit of the Chickasaw Nation

Graduating from Oklahoma A&M in 1943 with a degree in education, Chickasaw citizen Jerry Brown was soon recruited into the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and was one of the U.S. military's first female members. Because she took a photography class in college, Jerry was selected for a top-secret assignment at the Pentagon's Photo Intelligence Lab; it was there that Jerry became one of the first people in the world to witness the destruction following the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Looking back, Jerry says she was part of something important in keeping democracy and freedom alive in the United States.

Jeraldine "Jerry" Brown, a 2018 Chickasaw Hall of Fame inductee, veteran of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II, and member of the Chickasaw Warrior Society died Nov. 25, 2020 due to COVID-19 complications. She was 99.

Jerry Brown

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