The Brown Shirts crowded close to the aircraft, taking righteous possession of it now that it was shut down on the deck.

Brown Shirts were attached to the aircraft squadrons and were maintenance people.

"Don't look back right now, but I think some brown shirts are following us," Franz whispered.

Known by the Germans as the SA but more commonly called storm troopers or brown shirts by Westerners, the SA were considered Hitler's own private army.

In fact, during the very hours Hitler spoke, and while his train got up steam for the journey to his East Prussian headquarters, and while his loyal brown shirts strutted and swayed under a thick haze of cigarette smoke on reached the beer-drenched flood tide.

Aircraft maintenance brown shirts crawled over the plane, checking fasteners and the landing carriage.

Two "brown shirts" remove the chains tying the Greyhound to the flight deck pad eyes.

In addition to the constant inspections, brown shirts check fluid levels, prepare the cockpit for flight and ensure there is no foreign object debris that could damage the "bird".

Brown shirt

Meaning

Noun