342 pages, 12 plates, cloth, dust jacket little wrinkled otherwise very good. From the AND Reference: Chuck Yeager, aviator and test pilot; born in Myra, W.Va. A fighter pilot ace during World War II, he became the first to break the sound barrier, when he flew the Bell X-1 rocket 670 mph in level flight (October 14, 1947). He held various air force command assignments between 1954--62. He was vice-commander of the Ramstein, Germany, Air Base (1968--69), U.S. defense representative to Pakistan (1971--73), and director of aerospace safety at Norton Air Force Base in California (1973--75). His autobiography, Press On, was published in 1985. He appears as the main character in Tom Wolfe's book, The Right Stuff

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