The story culminates on a remote mountaintop in North Korea on Dec. 4, 1950, when Hudner Jr., a Navy fighter pilot, intentionally crash-landed his plane to try to save his wingman and friend Jesse ...

1950. Ensign Jesse Brown and Lt(jg) Tom Hudner join Navy Fighter Squadron VF-32 at roughly the same time and Brown is assigned as Hudner's wingman. They are quickly the best of friends and always ...