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When I do an internet search for General Sally Connors it finds no such person. What is going on here?

For example: I searched General Richard Drury the Wing Commander when I was stationed overseas and he pops right up on the Air Force website.

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/107214/brigadier-general-richard-t-drury/

I also looked at the list of all who flew the SR-71 and there is no Sally Connors.

Listing of All Personnel Who Flew the Blackbirds

Then I looked for the list of female Thunderbird pilots and found that have been five but none of the five was named Sally Connors.

Then I searched to see if Jimmy Stewart ever own a P-51 Mustang named Mustang Sally and the answer is no. It appears that he was a part owner of a P-51/C named Thunderbird.

Having lost her first two Mustangs in tragic accidents, on 19 December 1949 Jackie Cochran bought another P-51 Mustang racer—the 1949 Bendix Trophy Race winner, Thunderbird—from the Academy Award-winning actor and World War II B-24 wing commander, James M. Stewart. The earliest document in Thunderbird‘s Civil Aviation Administration file, Form ACA 132, contains the hand-written notation, “no service no.” The document states, “THIS AIRCRAFT WAS ASSEMBLED FROM COMPONENTS OF OTHER AIRCRAFT OF THE SAME TYPE.” The aircraft is designated on the form as a North American P-51C, Serial No. 2925.

This includes the history of that aircraft.

https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/jimmy-stewart/

Three years later Jackie Cochran sold it back to Jimmy Stewart and then a few years later he sold it to the previous co-owner, Joe De Bona. The aircraft changed hands sever times after and the most recent owner intended to restore it. None of the documented owns was Sally Connors.

Then I happened to read comments on the posted story:
MILO says:
MAY 3, 2020 AT 6:54 AM
There have only been 5 female Thunderbird pilots. The mythical Sally Connor was not one of them.
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SEAN F says:
MAY 11, 2021 AT 4:26 AM
Not to mention, the SR71 was retired in 1998 so it would have been tricky for her to fly it “later in her career”. Fiction is fine, I enjoy reading it, but it should be labeled as such for the more gullible.