CITIZEN DOSSIER
UEE Citizen Record #60596
Profile
Harter, Better, Faster
Handle name DarkwingDuck
Original backer
Main organization
Enlisted Nov 16, 2012
Location United States , Minnesota
Fluency English, Sanskrit
Website http://assets.achievement.org/achievers/yea0/movies/yea0-mov-030b.mov
Bio
Charles Elwood Yeager was born in 1923 in Myra, West Virginia and grew up in the nearby village of Hamlin. Immediately upon graduation from high school he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps to serve in World War II.
Shot down over enemy territory only one day after his first kill in 1943, Yeager evaded capture, and with the aid of the French resistance, made his way across the Pyrenees to neutral Spain.
Although army policy prohibited his return to combat flight, Yeager personally appealed to General Dwight D. Eisenhower and was allowed to fly combat missions again. In all, he flew 64 combat missions in World War II. On one occasion he shot down a German jet from a prop plane. By war's end he had downed 13 enemy aircraft, five in a single day.
He is a command pilot and has flown more than 10,000 hours in 155 different types of military aircraft.
Shot down over enemy territory only one day after his first kill in 1943, Yeager evaded capture, and with the aid of the French resistance, made his way across the Pyrenees to neutral Spain.
Although army policy prohibited his return to combat flight, Yeager personally appealed to General Dwight D. Eisenhower and was allowed to fly combat missions again. In all, he flew 64 combat missions in World War II. On one occasion he shot down a German jet from a prop plane. By war's end he had downed 13 enemy aircraft, five in a single day.
He is a command pilot and has flown more than 10,000 hours in 155 different types of military aircraft.