EPISODE · May 12, 2021 · 16 MIN
Chuck Yeager
from Now I've Heard Everything · host Bill Thompson
He was a farm boy from Hamlin, West Virginia. Chuck Yeager join the Army at the outset of World War II, Have it wasn't long before he became a fighter pilot. Two years after the war ended, in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first test ilot to break the sound barrier. He rose through the ranks to become a general, before retiring. By the time I met him in the fall of 1988, Yeager was still finding new adventures. He and his longtime friend Bud Anderson co-wrote a book about their adventures hiking in the High Sierras.
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He was a farm boy from Hamlin, West Virginia. Chuck Yeager join the Army at the outset of World War II, Have it wasn't long before he became a fighter pilot. Two years after the war ended, in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first test ilot to break the sound barrier. He rose through the ranks to become a general, before retiring. By the time I met him in the fall of 1988, Yeager was still finding new adventures. He and his longtime friend Bud Anderson co-wrote a book about their adventures hiking in the High Sierras.
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