Chuck Yeager
Charles Elwood Chuck Yeager is a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force and recordsetting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.
Yeager was born February, 1923, to farming parents Susie Mae and Albert Hal Yeager in Myra, West Virginia, and graduated from high school in Hamlin, West Virginia, in June 1941. He had two brothers, Roy and Hal, Jr., and two sisters, Doris Ann and Pansy Lee. His first experience with the military was as a teen at the Citizens Military Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, during the summers of 1939 and 1940. On February, 1945, Yeager married Glennis Dickhouse, and the couple had four children. Glennis died in 1990.
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