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birth of charels
he was born on Febuary,13,1923 in the town of myra west verginiaThe second son of Albert Hal and Susie Mae Yeager. Chuck Yeagers family moved to Hamlin when Chuck was five. -
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chuck yeager
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chucks schooling
chuck gets his high school diploma at the age of 15 chuck is second from the right, in the back row -
chuck enlisted
now general charels elwood yeager enlited in the United States army airforce. He was serving as crew chief on an AT-11 when he was selected for pilot training under the flying sergeant program in July 1942. -
chucks first dog fight
chucks shot down his first me 109 -
man down
chuck yeager get shot dow in the heat of a dog fight
this picture shows what kind of plane chuck flew and nearly died in -
last flight
chuck yeager's last flight after 64 comabat missions and 270 hours -
marrige
chuck yeager married glennis Faye Dickhouse for whom his p-51B, -C, and -D where named after -
mach buster
The x-1 plane was powered by a 4 chamber 6,000lb thrust xlr-11 rocket engine. He named the X-1 the Glamorous Glennis. -
flight squadron
in 1954 chuck took control of the 417th fighter bomber squadron -
up up and away
yeager was a piolet of a NF-104
