Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1939, ya fara aiki don "New York Daily News", amma lokacinsa a can ya katse a cikin 1942 ta Yaƙin Duniya na II, wanda ya yi aiki a cikin Sojojin Amurka tare da 460th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion (460th PFAB). Brown yana ɗaya daga cikin mutanen farko da suka yi parachute zuwa Kudancin Faransa
, a watan Agustan 1944, ya karbi kwamiti na filin wasa a matsayin na biyu kuma an ba shi lambar yabo ta Purple Heart da Croix de Guerre tare da Palm.