Posted on 12/07/2020 7:25:50 PM PST by SamAdams76
97 years old.
"The Right Stuff" immortalized him.
Yes they did.
Fort Knox gun safes too.
What a guy! RIP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager#Personal_life
Birth name Charles Elwood Yeager
Nickname(s) “Chuck”
Born February 13, 1923
Myra, West Virginia, U.S.
Died December 7, 2020 (aged 97)
Allegiance United States
Service/branch US Army Air Corps Hap Arnold Wings.svg United States Army Air Forces
United States Air Force
Years of service 1941–1975
Rank US-O7 insignia.svg Brigadier general
Battles/wars
World War II
Vietnam War
Awards
Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
Army Distinguished Service Medal
Silver Star (2)
Legion of Merit (2)
Distinguished Flying Cross (3)
Bronze Star Medal
Purple Heart
Others (see below)
Spouse(s)
Glennis Dickhouse
(m. 1945; died 1990)
Victoria Scott D’Angelo
(m. 2003)
Children 4
Relations Steve Yeager (cousin)
Other work Flight instructor and test pilot
Signature Chuck Yeager signature.SVG
Website www.chuckyeager.com
Actually, he was 17, and had enlisted in the Army Air Force three months earlier. He was too young for flight training, but after Pearl, and given Yeager's unusual visual acuity (20/10), they accepted him.
May he RIP.
My favorite story was of them completely shitfaced, having to sleep without pitching a tent or anything, just rolling out on the grass and passing out, only to wake up with a bunch of people waiting for a bus staring down at them!
I met him at Oshkosh one time and didn’t get a favorable impression of him, but in reflecting on it, I came to understand it was simply the celebrity thing which he apparently disliked at a visceral level.
I am sure all of his buddies, including Bob Hoover, were there to meet him at the Pearly Gates...:)
Thank you, Good Sir.
RIP/MEMORY ETERNAL.
A great man and and pioneer!
Chuck Yeager. Legend of courage. According to his wife, Chuck would come home after a busy day and throw his jacket into a closet. In the morning he would open the closet door and pick up his jacket off the floor. One night she hung his jacket on a hangar and then next morning he could not find his jacket. Funny but true story.
Years ago, my two young sons and I were walking around the EAA fly in in Oshkosh. We cut thru a building when I noticed a bunch of people watching a couple of guys on a stage. I looked long enough to realize that it was Hoover and Yeager. They were telling WWII stories and doing that thing with their hands showing the position of the enemy plane and their own.
I told my boys that they were watching history. It was great. I will never forget that.
After the movie “The Right Stuff” had its premier in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1983, Walter Mondale was asked about how he feels about having John Glenn as an opponent in the Democratic primaries. Mondale replied: “I’m just glad I’m not running against Yeager.”
Just damn! RIP Chuck! Gods speed as you soar towards the heavens and touch the face of God!
The EXCEPTION that proves the rule;
CHUCK YEAGER of West (by God) Virginia, WAS an OLD, BOLD PILOT!
R.I.P. & Godspeed!
And he was an aircraft mechanic in the air corps at the time IIRC
I had one hell of a night of drinking with Bob and Tex Hill back in the day at a reunion in Scottsdale back in the mid 90s.Lot of fun. And now Im the old guy.
RIP
My dads hero. My dad flew the normally fueled F104
They should get together
I remember when he was in Fresno being sued for not paying his legal bills.
He had a gold digger wife and he sued he kids for their trust funds.
He was not a nice guy.
https://abc30.com/archive/9519867/
Yeager was born in Myra, Lincoln County, West Virginia, in 1923. My late father was born in Yawkey, Lincoln County, West Virginia, in 1917. My father was also a career United States Air Force pilot and World War II B-24 bomber pilot and rose in rank without a college education, like Yeager. Dad was never famous but he, like Yeager, was also a fine man and father.
Sleepy Lincoln County WV has produced quite a number of fine veterans. A lot of WV veterans have “the Right Stuff.”
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