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Pence speaks at memorial service for Yeager in West Virginia


By JOHN RABY
Created: January 15, 2021 05:49 PM
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager was remembered at a memorial service Friday as a hero, legend and friend who would go out of his way to help others.
Vice President Mike Pence started the service in Yeager s home state of West Virginia by calling him America s greatest aviator during a 15-minute address that detailed Yeager s military career.
America will cherish always the memory, the service and the example of Gen. Chuck Yeager, Pence said.
During numerous video tributes, others spoke of the human side of Yeager, who died Dec. 7 at the age of 97. His love for growing tomatoes. For hunting and fishing. His work as a conservationist. And his love for the Oak Ridge Boys. ....

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WATCH: Memorial service for retired Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, WW II ace, first to break sound barrier


WATCH: Memorial service for retired Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, WW II ace, first to break sound barrier
January 15
Then-Col. Charles Chuck Yeager in New York City, New York, Oct. 18, 1962. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A Celebration of Life memorial service for retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager best known for being the first to fly faster than the speed of sound is scheduled for Friday at noon Eastern Time.
Vice President Mike Pence is slated to provide opening remarks at the ceremony, which will be held at the Charleston, West Virginia Coliseum and Convention Center. Among those in attendance will be Gen. David Allvin, vice chief of staff of the Air Force. ....

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Chuck Yeager was a Hollywood idea of a brave test pilot – today they must be skilled engineers too


Charles “Chuck” Yeager, who has died aged 97, epitomised the movie test pilot of the 1940s and 1950s. A fighter pilot hero of the second world war and later Korea, he was dashing, loyal and supremely skilled. In a life that was pure Hollywood, he named his various fighter aircraft “Glamorous Glenn” after his then fiancee, later wife, Glennis Dickhouse.
Brigadier General Chuck Yeager, before his retirement in the 1970s.
United States Air Force
Parts of his life were featured in the Oscar-winning movie The Right Stuff, in which he even took a cameo role, playing a bar drunk in the famous Happy Bottom Riding Club – a ranch hotel run by another famous pilot, Florence “Pancho” Barnes. He was – along with his friend Bob Hoover – one of the last of that generation of larger-than-life test pilots, usually former fighter pilots, who traded on their bravery and skill, rather than perhaps their scientific knowledge and teamwork. ....

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