Strapped into his P-51 fighter, Charles Yeager was ready for his mission to attack targets in the Bordeaux area of France. He was twenty-one years old and already had three months’ experience in combat managing to shoot down two German aircrafts. On this day his luck was to change. He occupied the “tail end Charlie” position of his four-plane flight.
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