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Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy\u2019s most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. Jesse became the Navy\u2019s first black carrier pilot, an African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi, defending a nation that wouldn\u2019t even serve him in a bar.While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32. Adam Makos takes us into the cockpit as these bold young aviators cut their teeth at the world\u2019s most dangerous job\u2014landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier\u2014a line of work that Jesse\u2019s young wife, Daisy, struggles to accept.