Flying for “Devotion” – Behind the scenes with the pilots who brought the story of Ensign Jesse Brown & LTJG Thomas Hudner to life

Erickson Air Museum general manager Mike Oliver pilots the Madras, Oregon-based museum’s F4U-7. It wears the markings of Jesse Brown’s VF-32 Corsair and was painted in that livery in 2018, before Oliver was aware that a film would be made from author Adam Makos’s book, “Devotion.” (Photo by Gary Stray)

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Arctic cold invaded Jesse Brown’s cockpit as he desperately looked for a place to land his F4U-4 Corsair in the snow-covered mountains of North Korea, near the Chosin Reservoir. Jonathan Majors plays Jesse Brown in Columbia Pictures’ “Devotion.” In this still from the film, he’s in the cockpit of Brown’s VF-32 Corsair. But he was actually filmed in the rear cockpit of Lewis Air Legends’ T Mk. 20 Sea Fury with...

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