Kunyora kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Muna 1939, akatanga kushanda ku "New York Daily News", asi nguva yake ipapo yakambomiswa muna 1942 neHondo Yenyika II, kwaakashanda muUnited States Army ne460th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion (460th PFAB). Brown akanga ari mumwe wevarume vokutanga kupinda muSouthern France neparachuti
, muna August 1944, kugamuchira basa romunda wehondo somutevedzeri wechipiri uye kupiwa Purple Heart neCroix de Guerre nePalm.