WWII

WWII. Shot down. Not so Sierra Hotel. March 5, 1944

By Victoria Yeager / March 4, 2014

March 5, 1944: Weather is stinkin’ again. We head to Bordeaux to hit some shipping targets. As we get closer, it is clear we can’t see the targets so we decide to head east to an air base as a target of opportunity. I call out: Bandits! Six o’clock! And turn into them – do…

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WWII.Shot Down My 1st E/A – March 4, 1944

By Victoria Yeager / March 4, 2014

In Chuck Yeager’s words: Weather was stinkin’. We scrambled – it was to be one of the first American daylight raids on Berlin. As I broke out in the clouds with my wingman, it was just the two of us. Wondered where the rest of the group was but forges ahead, found the box of…

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My First & Only Cruise: Yeager Going to War (WWII) on HMS Queen Elizabeth

By Victoria Yeager / December 9, 2013

General Yeager tells this story: 1943: Shortly before Christmas, we left for England and war. Just a couple nights before, we had feasted on the antelope I had herded and shot cleanly with a P-39. Far better than spam or powdered eggs, it would be our last good meal for a long time. As the…

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March 8, 1944

By Victoria Yeager / March 6, 2013

At night, a couple of men take me to a farm where I spend a week with a young couple with a young son. It’s off the beaten path. The house is beyond some tall hedges and fairly far in from the road. I spend a lot of time playing soccer with their young son.…

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