TY - BOOK AU - Keith,Don TI - Chuck Yeager: World War II fighter pilot T2 - American war heroes SN - 9780593187272 PY - 2022///] CY - [New York] PB - Caliber KW - Yeager, Chuck, KW - United States KW - Army Air Forces KW - Fighter Squadron, 363rd KW - Biography KW - Fighter pilots KW - Mustang (Fighter plane) KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Campaigns KW - Western Front KW - Regimental histories KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - 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 ..." N2 - "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"-- ER -