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Chuck Yeager : World War II fighter pilot / Don Keith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American war heroesPublisher: [New York] : Caliber, [2022]Description: 259 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593187272
  • 059318727X
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Skinning squirrels in Hamlin -- Flying sergeant -- Flying becomes fun -- Glamorous Glen -- "Doing what I was born to do" -- Pride before the fall -- "Tail-end Charlie" -- Sleeping under a parachute -- "Trust them" -- Fuse man for the Maquis -- The Pyrenees -- Thumbs-up -- Glamorous Glen II ... and III -- Five Messerschmitts over Bremen -- Scratch one swallow -- A fighter pilot's dream -- Mastery of the air -- Old crow, old Overholt, and Glamorous Glen -- Mach 1 -- "If I auger in tomorrow ...".
Summary: "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. 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. His exploits are the stuff of legend"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography YEAGER, C. K28 Available 33111010931299
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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. 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. 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. Against regulation, and only with the approval of General Eisenhower himself, Yeager returned to duty as a fighter pilot. While fiercely protecting Allied bombers, he shot down eleven enemy planes, including a lightning-fast Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first jet-powered airplane, and completed more than sixty missions. In CHUCK YEAGER, acclaimed author Don Keith tells the true story of the American icon during the war in which Yeager first proved he had the right stuff.

Skinning squirrels in Hamlin -- Flying sergeant -- Flying becomes fun -- Glamorous Glen -- "Doing what I was born to do" -- Pride before the fall -- "Tail-end Charlie" -- Sleeping under a parachute -- "Trust them" -- Fuse man for the Maquis -- The Pyrenees -- Thumbs-up -- Glamorous Glen II ... and III -- Five Messerschmitts over Bremen -- Scratch one swallow -- A fighter pilot's dream -- Mastery of the air -- Old crow, old Overholt, and Glamorous Glen -- Mach 1 -- "If I auger in tomorrow ...".

"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. 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. His exploits are the stuff of legend"-- Provided by publisher.

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