• July 8, 1923 – March 2, 1945
• Born in Memphis, Tennessee
• Engineering – 1942-1943
• 2nd Lt – Army Air Corps
• Killed in action on March 2, 1945, over the English Channel on a mission to bomb Germany. He was on his 20th mission.
  • 339th Bomber Squadron, 96th Heavy Bomber Group
  • B-17 Navigator
• Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee
• Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridgeshire, England

Emmett Wilson Brown Jr. (July 8, 1923 – March 2, 1945) was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended the University of Tennessee for Engineering from 1942 to when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1943. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant and trained as a navigator flying B-17 Navigators. 2nd Lt. Brown was deployed to the European Theater and flew bombing missions out of England with the 339th Bomber Squadron of the 96th Heavy Bomber Group. He was killed in action on March 2, 1945, on a bombing mission to Brunswick, Germany, when his B-17 accidentally collided mid-air with another plane over the English Channel. He is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridgeshire, England, and at Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee.

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