Adventures with Chuck

In His Own Words: Emmett Hatch, black pilot, in Chuck Yeager’s Squadron 1950’s

By Victoria Yeager / July 12, 2019

In his own words from Yeager, An Autobiography pp 290-297: “The Air Force had only been integrated seven or eight years by the time I became a fighter pilot. I came up through the ranks as an enlisted man, the same as Chuck Yeager, but it wasn’t easy for me as a black man. There…

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From Chuck Yeager shot down over France

By Victoria Yeager / March 7, 2018

March 4, 1944 1st daylight raid over Berlin. Weather was stinkin’. Only 2 P-51s guarding a box of bombers. They hit their targes. I shot down my first enemy aircraft (a/c). Woo hoo. I was out of ammo returning home. I espied the stragglers of the bombers in formation heading home. I called ahead. “Can…

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Chuck Yeager & M2-F1 Lifting Body

By Victoria Yeager / December 3, 2017

    Chuck Yeager flew the M2-F1  Lifting Body 5 times:           Vehicle              Date               Pilot          Velocity  Altitude    Comments M2-F1 #18 Dec 3, 1963    Yeager             240 3,650  Duration 00:01:35  …

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One Shot Whitetail Hunt

By Victoria Yeager / October 25, 2017

October 25-27, 2017 – West Virginia Governor’s 11th Annual “One Shot Whitetail Hunt”.  General Yeager once again supported this annual charitable event to raise money and provide food for the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources “Hunters Helping the Hungry” program, which provides thousands of pounds of venison to needy families across the…

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AIAA Stem Teacher Grants – How to Obtain One

By Victoria Yeager / October 5, 2016

AIAA STEM Teacher Grants – $500 grant competition open to elementary and secondary school teachers to augment funding for procuring materials and supplies for enhancing STEM education. Here is all you have to do to qualify: 1) Join AIAA as an Educator Associate (it’s free) at aiaa.org   2) Email a proposal (2 pages maximum,…

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March 1944 Escaped Nazis – Make it to Spain

By Victoria Yeager / April 1, 2016

I wake from a deep sleep to knocking on the door. I freeze. Where am I? It slowly comes back. It was not a dream- I should be in Spain. I made it over the Pyrenees without getting caught. Who is at the door, though? I cautiously move toward the door, scanning the room for…

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March 1944 Escaping Germans – a farmhouse in Spain

By Victoria Yeager / March 30, 2016

General Chuck Yeager: Having been shot down March 5, 1944 and hidden with the French underground, I was now carrying a fellow airman over the Pyrenees, the story picks up in Spain, not out of the woods yet. After catnapping, I dragged and carried the airman for what seemed like hours. We were starving. We…

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Meeting Donald Trump – he was a Gracious Gentleman

By Victoria Yeager / March 4, 2016

About 25 years ago, I was at a glamorous “Hollywood” luncheon at the Beverly Hilton hotel, standing in the back watching the show, looking at the fabulously rich women and what they chose to wear. I’ve always marveled that with all that money – it doesn’t mean good taste. I found out the guys standing…

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Yeager! Can’t you do anything right?

By Victoria Yeager / May 5, 2015

In General Yeager’s own words: After returning from being shot down, to return to combat, I had to go all the way up the chain of command until I found myself before General Eisenhower, The problem was if I was shot down again, the Germans might find me, torture me, and get information re the…

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WWII: March 5, 1944 -Unteroffizier Irmfred Klotz Shot me Down – Chuck Yeager

By Victoria Yeager / January 11, 2015

The generally accepted research shows that 22 year old Unteroffizier Irmfred Klotz flying a Focke Wulf 190 shot my airplane down on March 5, 1944. I was 21, thinking I was Sierra Hotel just the day before, now this guy is thinking he’s Sierra Hotel. The day after I shot down his first two enemy aircraft, although…

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Chuck Yeager: Where I Was on December 7, 1941 When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

By Victoria Yeager / December 8, 2014

General Chuck Yeager’s words: I had entered the Army Air Corps September 9, 1941, fresh out of high school and a summer of working with Dad, chores, huntin’, swimmin’ and fishin’.               On December 7, 1941; I was stationed at Moffett Field in California, still a crew chief, although…

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November 23, 1943: Off to war. And England.

By Victoria Yeager / December 2, 2014

November 23, 1943: Off to war. In General Chuck Yeager’s words: We got on the Queen Elizabeth to cross the Atlantic Ocean to war. There were 25,000  – one third a-sleeping, one third a-eating, one third a-puking. Then we switched every 8 hours. One guy asked, “Aren’t you feeling okay?” The other one said, “What?…

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