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Captain Chuck Yeager’s 1st flight in XS-1
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021Tags: Army Air Corps, Army Air Force, Army Air Forces, Bell X-1, Charles Yeager, Chuck Yeager, General Chuck Yeager, General Yeager, in flight, inflight, Muroc, X-1, Yeager
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Glennis Dickhouse Sees Chuck Yeager for the 1st Time
Saturday, June 19th, 2021Tags: Air Force, Army Air Corps, California, Charles Yeager, Chuck Yeager, Glennis, Glennis Dickhouse, Mac McKee, World War II, WWII, Yeager
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Chuck Yeager, Escaping Nazis, Makes it to Gibraltar May 15, 1944
Sunday, May 16th, 2021Tags: Air Force, Army Air Corps, Atlantic Ocean, Charles Yeager, Chuck Yeager, flying, flying with Chuck Yeager, France, French, French Milice, French police, French Underground, General Chuck Yeager, General Yeager, Germans, Germany, Gestapo, Gibraltar, Madrid, Mediterranean, Milice, Nazi, Nazis, P-51, police, Pyrenees, Rock of Gibraltar, Spain, Spain. Alhama de Aragon, train, West Virginia, World War II, WWII, Yeager
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General Yeager Interned in Spain 1944 (from an interview)
Friday, April 16th, 2021Tags: Air Force, Army Air Corps, Charles Yeager, Chuck Yeager, cigarettes, France, Pyrenees, Spain. Alhama de Aragon, West Virginia, World War II, WWII, Yeager
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Escaping the Gestapo – Climbing the Pyrenees Part 1
Saturday, March 27th, 2021Tags: Air Force, Bagneres du Luchon, Basque, Charles Yeager, Chuck Yeager, foothills, France, French Milice, French Underground, Fw 190, Germans, Gestapo, Maquis, Milice, Nazi, Nazis, P-51, Pyrenees, snow, Spain, Super Bagneres, weather is stinkin', World War II, WWII
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March 1944: Evading Germans – Heading to the Pyrenees to Escape Occupied France
Monday, March 22nd, 2021Tags: 1944, Air Force, Army Air Corps, California, Charles Yeager, Chuck Yeager, flying, France, French, French Milice, French Underground, General Chuck Yeager, General Yeager, Germans, Gestapo, Glamorous Glen III, March, Nazi, occupied France, P-51, Vichy, Vichy France, World War II, WWII
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Chuck Yeager and Helicopters – Hint: Not his Fave
Tuesday, March 16th, 2021Tags: Alaska, Australia, beach, bear, beluga, California, Canberra, Charles Yeager, Chuck Yeager, culling, Dick Smith, eagles, Edwards AFB, Fishing, flying, flying with Chuck Yeager, General Branch, Grand Canyon, Hawaii, helicopter, High Sierras, Hilo, huntin', hunting, hunting pigs, Kona, lava, lava flow, nude beach, pigs, pilot, Sydney, Sydney Harbour, Tunnel Meadows, Twig, ultralight, volcano, whale, whitewater rafting, wolves, Yeager
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Gestapo is Coming
Monday, March 15th, 2021Tags: Air Force, Army Air Corps, Charles Yeager, Chuck Yeager, flying with Chuck Yeager, France, French Underground, Germans, Glamorous Glen III, Maquis, Nerac, P-51, World War II, WWII, Yeager
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Combat over Berlin March 4, 1944. The Cavalry
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021Tags: Air Force, Berlin, Charles Yeager, Chuck Yeager, England, Fighter Ace, flying with Chuck Yeager, General Chuck Yeager, Glamorus Glen, P-51B, UK, World War II, Yeager
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In His Own Words: Emmett Hatch, black pilot, in Chuck Yeager’s Squadron 1950’s
Friday, July 12th, 2019Tags: Air Force, black, black pilot. African American, Chuck Yeager, Emmett Hatch, flying, flying with Chuck Yeager, Germany, gunnery, gunnery meet, Squadron, squadron commander, Tripoli, West Virginia, Wheelus, Yeager
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