Breaking the Sound Barrier F-86 Pilots Jackie Cochran and Chuck Yeager, Edwards AFB, 1953
Breaking the Sound Barrier F-86 Pilots Jackie Cochran and Chuck Yeager, Edwards AFB, 1953
Jackie Cochran grew up very poor in my home town of DeFuniak Springs Florida. She was married and her little boy accidentally burned to death in her back yard.
She went to hair dressing school and made something of herself. She eventually married the president of General Dynamics, one of the wealthiest men in the world. She kept her married name of her child’s father “cochrane”.
My Father was present when a man pulled her out of Ponce de Leon Springs, saving her life. She was just a young girl then but in later life she would send the guy a check every year. My Father saw one of the checks. She didn’t just forget the guy who saved her life.