Charles Yeager (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Chuck Yeager, retired Brigadier General of the United States Air Force, learned to hunt and fish at the age of six in order to help put food on the family’s table.
He later grew up to do what many thought impossible: in 1947 he broke the sound barrier and became the world’s first supersonic pilot.
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