Chuck Yeager, byname of Charles Elwood Yeager, (born February 13, 1923, Myra, West Virginia, U.S.), American test pilot and U.S. Air Force officer who was the first man to exceed the speed of sound in flight. Yeager enlisted in the U.S. Army in September 1941, shortly...
US Air Force Major General. A World War II combat fighter pilot, he was the Commander-in Chief of Alaskan Air Command from March 1974 to September 1975. He was raised in Overton, Texas and after graduating from high school, he attended the University of Utah at Salt...
Retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole, the last survivor of the Doolittle Raid, the first U.S. strike on the Japanese islands during World War II, died Tuesday (April 9, 2019) in Texas. He was 103. Cole was one of 80 men sent to target factory areas and military installations...
A native of California, Captain Roy Voris graduated from Salinas Junior College in 1939. Born on September 17, 1919, he entered the U.S. Navy in 1941 and by February 1942, he was commissioned an ensign and designated a naval aviator. During his first deployment in...
(July 2000) Maj. Gen. Francis C. Gideon Jr. is the chief of safety of the U.S. Air Force, and commander, Headquarters Air Force Safety Center, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. He serves as the senior uniformed adviser to the chief of staff and the secretary of the Air...
