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Chuck Yeager: World War II Fighter Pilot Audiobook
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For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the riveting true story of United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot Chuck Yeager.
Bold, brash, and brimming with courage, Chuck Yeager burst onto the scene as a national hero in 1947, when he became the first to fly an airplane faster than the speed of sound. Yet even before his days as America’s most famous test pilot, Yeager was a young fighter ace in the US Army Air Force, flying a P-51 Mustang over Nazi-occupied Europe. His exploits are the stuff of legend.
Soon after downing his first enemy fighter, Yeager, too, was shot down, surviving thanks to the help of the French Resistance and his own skills as a bomb maker—and earned a Bronze Star for saving the life of a fellow American. Against regulation, and only with the approval of General Eisenhower himself, Yeager returned to duty as a fighter pilot. While fiercely protecting Allied bombers, he shot down eleven enemy planes, including a lightning-fast Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first jet-powered airplane, and completed more than sixty missions.
In Chuck Yeager, acclaimed author Don Keith tells the true story of the American icon during the war in which Yeager first proved he had the right stuff.
Cover image courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum
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About Don Keith
Don Keith is the author of historical fiction, suspense thriller series, and stand-alone novels, as well as nonfiction historical works of World Warr II. His series of young adult/men’s adventure novels co-written with Kent Wright are called the Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing Series. His first novel, The Forever Season, won the Alabama Library Association’s “Fiction of the Year” award. He was a broadcast personality for over twenty years and was named by Billboard magazine “Radio Personality of the Year.” Commander George Wallace received his commission in the US Navy and a degree in engineering from Ohio State University. After being interviewed by Admiral Rickover, he was accepted into the nuclear power and submarine communities. He served on two of Admiral Rickover’s famous “Forty One for Freedom,” the USS John Adams and the USS Woodrow Wilson, during which time he made nine one-hundred-day deterrent patrols through the height of the Cold War.
About Josh Robert Thompson
Josh Robert Thompson is a comedian, voice, and television actor known for his celebrity impressions and outrageous original characters. He is best recognized as the voice of Craig Ferguson’s robot skeleton sidekick, Geoff Peterson, on CBS’s The Late Late Show. As a voice actor, he has been featured on Disney Channel television shows and a number of popular video games that include Final Fantasy XIII and James Cameron’s Avatar.