Glamorous Glen III – Page 2 – The Chuck Yeager Foundation

March 12-13, 1944.Hiding from Germans.Have to leave

By Victoria Yeager / March 14, 2014

March 12, 1944. More fishing, playing soccer, hiking in the woods. This is the area of foie gras but even geese are a bit scarce. Also special Bordeaux wines – also scarce. The Germans have taken almost everything that the farmers haven’t hidden. March 13. They tell me to get some rest. I’m leaving tonight.…

March 10, 1944 WWII. Yeager Still in Hiding from Germans

By Victoria Yeager / March 10, 2014

March 10, 1944. Jean comes running back. He had been in hiding but fairly close to the road. A few Germans had driven past maybe to the site where the German pilot or his plane had come down. Rumors are swirling that some French sympathetic to the Germans have turned in (and on) some neighbors…

WWII.Mar 6, 1944: Behind Enemy Lines:Germans Everywhere Looking for Yeager

By Victoria Yeager / March 5, 2014

March 6, 1944: Behind Enemy Lines:Germans Everywhere Looking for Me: In the morning, I hear a rhythmic banging. I crawl to where I could see – it is a woodsman chopping wood. We were told, if we’re shot down or behind enemy lines, to approach poor people – they would be the most likely to…

British v American Fighter Pilots

By Victoria Yeager / January 16, 2014

Jan 16, 1944 – General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London. And not a moment too soon for the US fighter pilots at Leiston, UK. The British, whose derrieres we were saving, were rudely saying: The Americans are: Overpaid Oversexed and Over here. After General Eisenhower took command, the…

COL SPICER – ALMOST GOT ME KILLED IN WWII

By Victoria Yeager / December 2, 2013

From General Chuck Yeager: Man, it was close. See, what happened was: Because I had exceptional eyes, even though I was a junior officer, I flew my first mission as 357th Fighter Group Commander Col Spicer’s wingman, Col Spicer was fearless, loved to dogfight without concern for personal risk or his wingman’s apparently. With bristling…

From Chuck Yeager: Working with the Maquis (Shot Down in France Part II)

By Victoria Yeager / March 23, 2013

March 20 ’44 Spend most the day working on Gabriel’s old engine in the shed. Gabriel is happy I’ve got something to keep me busy. He thinks it will keep me busy the rest of the war – that it will never work. March 20-21, ’44.Night: Gabriel knows I’m itching to do something in war.…

The 100 Dollar Hamburger flying

By Victoria Yeager / July 10, 2010

$100 Hamburger Not much flying this winter