The Man Called Brown Condor (40 page)

Col. Robinson returning to the U.S. aboard the North German Lloyd Lines ship,
Europa
.

Photo credit: International News Photo

Col. Robinson aboard the North German Lloyd Lines ship,
Europa
.

Photo Credit:
Chicago Daily Tribune

Col. Robinson stepping from Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) DC 3 at Chicago to a welcome by members of the Challenger Air Pilots Association which he helped organize. His friend Cornelius Coffey is at lower left.

Photo credit:
Chicago Defender

Photo taken from the balcony of the Grand Hotel at the intersection of 15th and South Park Avenue. An estimated 20,000 people turned out to hail their hero, Col. Robinson, who was standing on the balcony.

Col. Robinson's new Stinson SR Reliant. Mrs. Malone, founder of Poro College, stands beside the plane waiting to begin a tour of several cities to promote her cosmetic products.

Col. Robinson in Gulfport with his Cadillac convertible.

Photo credit: John Stokes

Col. Robinson in his commercial pilot uniform at an Army Headquarters flight line shack.

Photo credit: Jim Cheeks

Col. Robinson with his chosen American cadre of pilots to begin training a new Ethiopian Air Force. The group at their villa in Addis Ababa. Standing L to R: Jim Cheeks, Ed Jones, Haile Hill and Joe Muldrow. Front: L to R: Andy Hester, Col. Robinson.

Photo credit: Jim Cheeks

Starting engines after complete overhaul on a U. S. surplus Cessna UC 78.

Photo credit:
South Mississippi Living Magazine

Col. Robinson with an English Army sergeant at the airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1944.

Photo Credit: Jim Cheeks

Jim Cheeks standing by the tail of the Cessna UC 78. Note the Ethiopian roundel on the fuselage.

Photo Credit: Jim Cheeks

The first class of flight cadets trained in the UC 78, the only plane available at the time.

Photo Credit: John Stokes

Colonel John C. Robinson beside the first Ethiopian Air Line DC-3.