Chuck Yeager: World War II Fighter Pilot Keith Don
Chuck Yeager: World War II Fighter Pilot Keith Don For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the riveting true story of United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test…
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Chuck Yeager: World War II Fighter Pilot Keith Don
For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the riveting true story of United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot Chuck Yeager.Bold, brash, and brimming with courage, Chuck Yeager burst onto the scene as a national hero in 1947, when he became the first to fly an airplane faster than the speed of sound. His exploits are the stuff of legend.Soon after downing his first enemy fighter, Yeager, too, was shot down, surviving thanks to the help of the French Resistance and his own skills as a bomb maker--and earned a Bronze Star for saving the life of a fellow American. Yet even before his days as America's most famous test pilot, Yeager was a young fighter ace in the US Army Air Force, flying a P-51 Mustang over Nazi-occupied Europe.
Against regulation, and only with the approval of General Eisenhower himself, Yeager returned to duty as a