Food

6-9 mars 1944: Caché à la vue de tous à Casteljaloux et à Pompogne à Vélo

By Victoria Yeager / March 9, 2021

6-9 mars 1944 Abattu le 5 mars 1944, se cachant toujours des Allemands et de la Milice française. J’ai passé la nuit dans une maison bien en vue à Casteljaloux, France. J’étais caché sous la maison dans un espace qui s’étendait de l’avant à l’arrière de la maison, une petite fenêtre à chaque extrémité donc…

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Great Aviatrix, Pancho Barnes, in Chuck Yeager’s Own Words

By Victoria Yeager / March 2, 2021

I first met Pancho Barnes on my first trip to Muroc in 1945, when we were testing Shooting Stars. Pancho was 46 when I first met her. She had black hair and dark eyes, slim hips and broad shoulders. She would never use a 5 or 6 letter word when a four-letter word would do.…

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Gabriel – head of the Neracais French Maquis

By Victoria Yeager / March 19, 2013

Gabriel was larger than life. Gabriel LaPeyrusse, Mayor of Nerac, head of the Maquis during World War II, was one of many who protected and saved my husband during World War II. General Yeager and I visited his house recently. It’s a pretty and historic house with a large yard. The fields behind it used…

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Scraping the Roads

By Victoria Yeager / August 30, 2010

garden, eggplant, scraping roads, tomato sandwiches

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Salmon Wellington

By Victoria Yeager / July 30, 2010

Tapas bar, gourmet

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