Victoria Yeager
Flight Officer (F/O) Yeager Makes Way to Nerac to Evade Nazis
March 10-12, 1944 The Germans seem to have lost interest in finding me; there are fewer patrols now. Maybe they think if they stop looking for me so hard, I’ll become careless and fall into their net. And it nearly happens that way. Little Jean-Pierre and I are hiking to the pond, while crossing an…
Read MoreChuck Yeager’s Parents & His Childhood Church
There were two Methodists churches in Hamlin. One was the Southern Methodist Church all Democrats, the other congregation was Northern Methodist Church the hardcore Republicans of Lincoln County, where we belonged. On election day, Dad traveled the hollers armed with two-dollar bills and whiskey trying to buy GOP votes. Dad, Albert Hal Yeager, had Dutch…
Read MoreProtected: Victoria Yeager’s First Adventure – 22 months BC
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Read MoreARPS – early astronaut training
In late 1961, we were ready to screen applicants for our first class at the space school, and because they would be the first bunch, the screening process was particularly thorough. We wanted only the very best pilots, and our first couple of classes consisted of experienced military test pilots, who had graduated from Edwards’…
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