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Harry D. Brooks, Esq. MED ‘93

For Harry Brooks, a lifelong passion for flying began in the cockpit of an F4 Phantom as a US Marine. He flew F105G aircraft in the Air National Guard and was awarded the Air Medal and the Air Force Association’s Earl Ricks Award for landing a fighter with a serious control malfunction. Harry is an attorney who specializes in air crash investigations and has evaluated some of the most high-profile accidents in United States history. He is an aviation consultant to the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board and is a regular speaker at their safety conferences.

Harry has contributed enormously to the welfare and objectives of The Explorers Club. In addition to six years on the Board of Directors and three years as the Atlanta Chapter Chair, he served six years on the Flag and Honors Committee (three years as Chair), and chaired the Legal and Membership Committees. He also served on the Executive Committee, the Nominating Committee and as Club Ombudsman. He has successfully solicited corporate sponsor donations, and is currently the Assistant Treasurer.

Brooks has carried The Explorers Club Flag on eight expeditions, including expeditions to Papua New Guinea, Roatan, Belize, the Tarawa Atoll, Midway Atoll, and Butaritari Atoll. He has sponsored and led student explorers to the Peruvian Amazon for ethno-diversity studies with the Bora Indians, while the expedition on Butaritari discovered the remains of the 19 US Marines left following “Carlson’s Makin Raid” in 1942, leading to their internment at Arlington Cemetery. For this, Harry was made an Honorary Marine Raider.

He lives with his wife, Leslie, in Norcross, Georgia.