A Simulated Journal for Chuck Yeager It is January of 1944, My 357th fighting squad and I are stationed at Raydon Wood Airdome in a country called Suffolk, a little east of England. The Germans have the European coast from the North Sea down to Spain. Our forces have damaged the German Air Force (the Luftwalffe) but they are still highly dangerous. I found out yesterday that our unit would be receive a new fighter called …
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…cooled to two hundred, ninety degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. As the B-29 reached drop height, he dropped from it and light off each of the engines one at a time. I am going to go up there and punch a hole right trough that old sound barrier. If I do, I will go down in history as the first person to fly faster than sound. If I fail... Failure is not a word I know.