Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1939, ka timata ia ki te mahi mo te "New York Daily News", engari ko tana wa i reira i pakaru i te 1942 na te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, i mahi ai ia i te ope taua o te United States me te 460th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion (460th PFAB). Ko Brown tētahi o nga tangata tuatahi ki te parachute ki
France ki te Tonga, i te marama o Akuhata 1944, i whakawhiwhia ki a ia he komihana pakanga hei tuarua tuarua me te whakawhiwhia ki te Purple Heart me te Croix de Guerre me Palm.