Lihat sumber bagi Chuck Yeager

{{Infobox military person
|name=Charles Elwood Yeager
|image= [[Fail:ChuckYeager.jpg|250px]]
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|nickname=Chuck
|placeofbirth=[[Myra, West Virginia|Myra]], [[West Virginia]]
|born={{Birth date and age|1923|02|13}}
|placeofdeath=
|placeofburial=
|placeofburial_label= Tempat pengebumian
|allegiance= {{Flag icon|USA}} [[Amerika Syarikat]]
|branch= [[Fail:USAAC Roundel 1919-1941.svg|20px]] [[Pasukan Udara Tentera Darat Amerika Syarikat]] <br/>[[Fail:Seal of the US Air Force.svg|20px]] [[Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat]]
|serviceyears= 1941 - 1975
|rank= [[Mejar jeneral (Amerika Syarikat)|Mejar Jeneral]] ''(senarai bersara)''
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|battles=[[Perang Dunia Kedua]]<br/>[[Perang Vietnam]]
|awards=[[Fail:Air Force Distinguished Service ribbon.svg|30px]] [[Air Force Distinguished Service Medal|Distinguished Service Medal]] (2)<br/>[[Fail:Silver Star ribbon.svg|30px]] [[Silver Star]] (2)<br/>[[Fail:Distinguished Flying Cross ribbon.svg|30px]] [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)|Distinguished Flying Cross]] (3)<br/>[[Fail:Legion of Merit ribbon.svg|30px]] [[Legion of Merit]] (2)<br/>[[Fail:Bronze Star BAR.svg|30px]] [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]]<br/>[[Fail:Purple Heart ribbon.svg|30px]] [[Purple Heart]]<br/>[[Fail:PresFree.gif|30px]] [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]]<br/>[[Congressional Silver Medal]]
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|laterwork= Guru terbang
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'''Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager''' (lahir 13 Februari 1923) {{IPA-en|ˈjeɪgər}} ialah seorang [[mejar jeneral (Amerika Syarikat)|mejar jeneral]] bersara [[Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat]] dan [[juruterbang ujian]] terkenal. Beliau adalah juruterbang pertama yang terbang [[batasan bunyi|lebih pantas daripada kelajuan bunyi]] (1947). Asalnya bersara sebagai [[brigadier jeneral (Amerika Syarikat)|brigadier jeneral]], Yeager dinaik pangkat menjadi mejar jeneral pada senarai bersara Tentera Udara 20 tahun kemudian untuk pencapaian ketenteraannya.

Kerjayanya bermula pada [[Perang Dunia Kedua]] sebagai [[prebet]] dalam [[Pasukan Udara Tentera Darat Amerika Syarikat]]. Selepas berkhidmat sebagai mekanik kapal terbang, pada September 1942 beliau mengikuti latihan juruterbang dan apabila lulus dinaik pangkat ke [[pegawai penerbangan]] (pangkat Perang Dunia II USAAF setaraf [[Pegawai Waran (Amerika Syarikat)|pegawai waran]]) dan menjadi [[juruterbang pejuang]] [[P-51 Mustang]]. Selepas perang beliau menjadi [[juruterbang ujian]] banyak pesawat udara dan roket. Yeager adalah lelaki pertama mengatasi batasan bunyi pada 14 Oktober 1947, memandu pesawat ujiab [[Bell X-1]] pada [[nombor Mach|Mach]] 1 pada ketinggian 13,700 m (45,000 ka). Walaupun [[Albert Scott Crossfield|Scott Crossfield]] menjadi orang pertama terbang lebih pantas daripada Mach 2 pada 1953, Yeager mencatat rekod baru Mach 2.44 tidak lama kemudian.<ref name="yeagerbio_252">'''Yeager, Chuck''' dan [[Leo Janos|Janos, Leo]]. ''Yeager: An Autobiography''. m/s. 252 (kulit lembut). New York: Bantam Books, 1986. ISBN 0-553-25674-2.</ref> He later commanded fighter squadrons and wings in [[Germany]] and in [[Southeast Asia]] during the [[Vietnam War]], and in recognition of the outstanding performance ratings of those units he then was promoted to brigadier general. Yeager's flying career spans more than sixty years and has taken him to every corner of the globe, including the [[Soviet Union]] during the height of the [[Cold War]].

== Biografi ==
Yeager dilahirkan kepada ibu bapa petani Susie Mae dan Albert Hal Yeager di [[Myra, West Virginia]], and graduated from high school in [[Hamlin, West Virginia]]. Yeager ada dua adik-beradik, Roy dan Hal, Jr., dan dua kakak, Doris Ann (dibunuh secara tidak sengaja oleh Roy dengan senapang semasa bayi)<ref name="yeagerbio_6">''Yeager: An Autobiography''. Page 6 (paperback).</ref> dan Pansy Lee. Pengalaman pertamanya dengan tentera ialah [[Kem Latihan Tentera Rakyat]] di [[Fort Benjamin Harrison]], [[Indianapolis, Indiana]], semasa musim panas 1939 dan 1940. Pada 26 Februari 1945, Yeager berkahwin dengan Glennis Dickhouse, dan pasangan itu melahirkan empat orang anak. Glennis Yeager meninggal pada 1990.

Chuck Yeager is not related to [[Jeana Yeager]], one of the two pilots of the [[Rutan Voyager]] aircraft, which circled the world without landing or refueling. The name "Yeager" ({{pron-en|ˈjeɪɡər}}) is an Anglicized form of the [[German language|German]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and [[North Germanic languages|Scandinavian]] name, ''Jäger'' (German: "hunter") , and so is common among immigrants of those communities. He is the uncle of former baseball catcher [[Steve Yeager]].

==== Perang Dunia II ====
Yeager enlisted as a private in the [[United States Army Air Forces|U.S. Army Air Forces]] (USAAF) pada 12 September 1941, and became an jurumekanik kapal terbang at [[George Air Force Base]], [[Victorville, California]]. At enlistment, Yeager was not eligible for flight training because of his age and educational background, but the entry of the U.S. into [[World War II]] less than two months later prompted the USAAF to alter its recruiting standards. Blessed with remarkable 20/10 vision, Yeager displayed natural talent as a pilot and was accepted for flight training. He received his wings and a promotion to [[Warrant Officer (United States)#Flight Officer|Flight Officer]] at [[Luke Air Force Base|Luke Field]], [[Arizona]], where he graduated from class 43C on March 10, 1943. Assigned to the [[357th Fighter Group]] at [[Tonopah, Nevada]], he initially trained as a fighter pilot flying [[P-39 Airacobra]]s (earning a seven day grounding order for pruning a tree belonging to a local farmer during a training flight),<ref>[[Take Off magazine]] issue 36, page 991</ref> and went overseas with the group on November 23, 1943.

[[Fail:P51-1 300.jpg|kiri|thumb|P-51D-20NA ''Glamorous Glen III'', is the aircraft in which Chuck Yeager pilot achieved most of his aerial victories.]]

Stationed in the [[United Kingdom]] at [[RAF Leiston]], Yeager flew [[P-51 Mustang]]s in combat (he named his aircraft ''Glamorous Glennis''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cebudanderson.com/357profileglamorousglend.htm |title=357th Fighter Group Profile<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2010-10-14 |archive-date=2008-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515170911/http://www.cebudanderson.com/357profileglamorousglend.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> after his girlfriend, Glennis Faye Dickhouse, who became his wife in February 1945) with the 363rd Fighter Squadron. He had gained one victory before he was shot down over [[France]] on his eighth mission, on March 5, 1944.<ref name=EscapeEvasion>{{Cite web |url=http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/viewitem.pl?item=105467 |title=Escape and Evasion Case File for Flight Officer Charles (Chuck) E. Yeager |access-date=2010-10-14 |archive-date=2009-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218212756/http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/viewitem.pl?item=105467 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He escaped to [[Spain]] on March 30 with the help of the [[Maquis (World War II)|''Maquis'']] (French Resistance) and returned to England on May 15, 1944. During his stay with the ''Maquis'', Yeager assisted the guerrillas in duties that did not involve direct combat, though he did help to construct bombs for the group, a skill that he had learned from his father.<ref name="yeagerbio_45">''Yeager: An Autobiography''. Page 45 (paperback).</ref> He was awarded the [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]] for helping another airman, who had lost part of his leg during the escape attempt, to cross the [[Pyrenees]].

Despite a regulation that "evaders" (escaped pilots) could not fly over enemy territory again to avoid compromising Resistance allies, Yeager was reinstated to flying combat. Yeager had joined a bomber pilot evader, Capt. Fred Glover, in speaking directly to the Allied Supreme Commander, General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], on June 12, 1944. With Glover pleading their case, arguing that because the Allies had invaded France, the ''Maquis'' resistance movement was by then openly fighting the Nazis alongside Allied troops, so there was little or nothing they could reveal if shot down again to expose those who had helped them evade capture. Eisenhower, after gaining permission from the War Department to decide the requests, concurred with Yeager and Glover. Yeager later credited his postwar success in the Air Force to this decision, saying that his test pilot career followed naturally from being a decorated combat ace with a good kill record, along with being an airplane maintenance man prior to attending pilot school. In part because of his maintenance background, Yeager also frequently served as a maintenance officer in his flying units.

Yeager possessed outstanding eyesight (rated as 20/10, once enabling him to shoot a deer at {{convert|600|yd}}<ref name="yeagerbio_297">''Yeager: An Autobiography''. Page 297 (paperback).</ref>), flying skills, and combat leadership; he distinguished himself by becoming the first [[aviator|pilot]] in his group to make "[[ace in a day]]": he shot down five enemy aircraft in one mission, finishing the war with 11.5 official victories, including one of the first air-to-air victories over a jet fighter (a German [[Messerschmitt Me 262]]). Two of his "ace in a day" kills were scored without firing a single shot; he flew into firing position against a [[Messerschmitt Bf 109]] and the pilot of the aircraft panicked, breaking to starboard and colliding with his wingman; Yeager later reported both pilots bailed out. Another victory that was not officially counted for him came during the period before his combat status was reinstated: during a training flight in his P-51 over the [[North Sea]], he happened on a German [[Junkers Ju 88]] heavy fighter attacking a downed [[B-17 Flying Fortress]] crew. Yeager's quick thinking and reflexes saved the B-17 crew, but because he was not yet cleared for flying combat again, his gun camera film and credit for the kill were given to his wingman, Eddie Simpson. (Yeager later mistakenly recalled that the credit had given Simpson his fifth kill).

In his 1986 memoirs, he noted with disgust that "atrocities were committed by both sides" and went on to recount going on a mission with orders from the [[Eighth Air Force]] to "strafe anything that moved".<ref name="Wolfgang W. E p454">Wolfgang W. E. Samuel "American raiders: the race to capture the Luftwaffe's secrets" p454</ref><ref name="J. Coady p.13">C. A. J. Coady, "Morality and political violence" p.13</ref> During the mission briefing he whispered to Major Donald H. Boschkay; "if we are going to do things like this, we sure as hell better make sure we are on the winning side".<ref name="Wolfgang W. E p454"/><ref name="J. Coady p.13"/> He further noted "I’m certainly not proud of that particular strafing mission against civilians. But it is there, on the record and in my memory."<ref>[http://allanitapress.com/JustWarChp01.pdf The Christian & War] p.15, further referenced to Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos, Yeager, 1985, p. 63.</ref><ref>Chuck Yeager, Leo Janos "Yeager, an autobiography", p.80 ([http://books.google.com/books?cd=7&q=Chuck+Yeager+and+Leo+Janos+%22not+proud%22&btnG=Search+Books google])</ref>

Yeager was commissioned a [[second lieutenant#United States|second lieutenant]] while at Leiston and was promoted to [[Captain (U.S. Air Force)|captain]] before the end of his tour. He flew his sixty-first and final mission on January 15, 1945, and returned to the United States in early February. As an evader, he received his choice of assignments and, because his new wife was pregnant, chose [[Wright Field]] to be near his home in West Virginia. His high flight hours and maintenance experience qualified him to become a functional test pilot of repaired aircraft, which brought him under the command of Colonel [[Albert Boyd]], head of the Aeronautical Systems Flight Test Division.<ref name="yeagerbio_60">''Yeager: An Autobiography''. Page 60 (paperback).</ref>
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====Post-War====
[[File:Yeager supersonic flight 1947.ogg|right|thumb|Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947. The plane that carried Yeager, the X-1]]
Yeager remained in the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] after the war, becoming a test pilot at [[Edwards Air Force Base|Muroc Army Air Field]] (now [[Edwards Air Force Base]]) and eventually being selected to fly the rocket-powered [[Bell X-1]] in a [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]] program to research high-speed flight, after [[Bell Aircraft]] test pilot [[Chalmers Goodlin|"Slick" Goodlin]] demanded $150,000 to break the sound "barrier."<ref name="yeagerbio_121">''Yeager: An Autobiography''. Page 121 (paperback).</ref><ref name="right_stuff_52-53">[[Tom Wolfe|Wolfe, Tom]]. ''[[The Right Stuff (book)|The Right Stuff]]''. Pages 52-53 (hardcover). [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux|Farrar-Straus-Giroux]], [[New York City|New York]]. 1979. ISBN 0-374-25033-2.</ref> Such was the difficulty in this task that the answer to many of the inherent challenges were along the lines of "Yeager better have paid-up insurance."<ref name="yeagerbio_157">''Yeager: An Autobiography''. Page 157 (paperback).</ref> Yeager broke the [[sound barrier]] on October 14, 1947, flying the experimental X-1 at [[Mach number|Mach]] 1 at an altitude of 45,000 feet (13,700&nbsp;m). Two nights before the scheduled date for the flight, he broke two ribs while riding a horse. He was so afraid of being removed from the mission that he went to a veterinarian in a nearby town for treatment and told only his wife, as well as friend and fellow project pilot [[Jack Ridley]] about it.

[[File:Chuck Yeager.jpg|thumb|left|290px|Yeager in front of the [[Bell X-1]], which, as with all of the aircraft assigned to him, he named ''Glamorous Glennis'' (or some variation thereof), after his wife.]]

On the day of the flight, Yeager was in such pain that he could not seal the airplane's hatch by himself. Ridley rigged up a device, using the end of a broom handle as an extra lever, to allow Yeager to seal the hatch of the airplane. Yeager's flight recorded Mach 1.07, however, he was quick to point out that the public paid attention to whole numbers and that the next milestone would be exceeding Mach 2. Yeager's X-1 is on display at the [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian Institution's]] [[National Air and Space Museum]]. Yeager was awarded the [[Mackay Trophy|MacKay]] and [[Collier Trophy|Collier Trophies]] in 1948 for his mach-transcending flight, and the [[Harmon Trophy|Harmon International Trophy]] in 1954.

Some aviation historians contend that American pilot [[George Welch (pilot)|George Welch]] broke the sound barrier before Yeager, once while diving an [[F-86 Sabre|XP-86 Sabre]] on October 1, 1947, and again just 30 minutes before Yeager's X-1 flight.<ref>
{{Cite web
|url = http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0113.shtml
|title = First Supersonic Jet
|accessdate = 2006-11-23
|publisher = Aerospaceweb.org
|quote = The capabilities of the Sabre were finally released in June 1948 when the Air Force and North American announced that the XP-86, piloted by George Welch, had broken the sound barrier in a dive. However, the date of Welch's achievement was given as April 26, 1948 with no mention made of his earlier flights.
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{{Cite web
|url = http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/pdf/SabreMk6.pdf
|format=PDF|title = CANADA AVIATION MUSEUM AIRCRAFT CANADAIR F-86 SABRE MK.6
|accessdate = 2006-11-23
|quote = The maximum speed listed at 606 mph (975 km/h) is in level flight, however, the SABRE could exceed the speed of sound (760 mph [1,224 km/h] at sea level and 660 mph [1,061 km/h] at 36,000 ft). This was accomplished by flying to an altitude of approximately 45,000 ft (13,720 m) and with full power applied accelerating to the maximum level flight speed. The aircraft would then be rolled to inverted flight and pulled down until it was pointing straight down at the ground at full power and allowed to accelerate until it was supersonic (Mach 1). Minor buffeting would occur and supersonic flight would be momentarily achieved at approximately 35,000 ft (10,670 m).
|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20061028050426/http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/pdf/SabreMk6.pdf |archivedate = 2006-10-28}}</ref> There was also a disputed claim by German pilot [[Hans Guido Mutke]] that he was the first person to break the [[sound barrier]], on April 9, 1945, in a [[Messerschmitt]] [[Messerschmitt Me 262|Me 262]].

Yeager went on to break many other speed and altitude records. He also was one of the first American pilots to fly a [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15|MiG-15]] after its pilot defected to [[South Korea]] with it. During the latter half of 1953, Yeager was involved with the USAF team that was working on the X-1A, an aircraft designed to surpass Mach 2 in level flight. That year, he flew a [[chase plane]] for the female civilian pilot [[Jacqueline Cochran|Jackie Cochran]], a close friend, as she became the first woman to fly faster than sound. However, on November 20, 1953, the NACA's [[Douglas Skyrocket|D-558-II Skyrocket]] and its pilot, [[Albert Scott Crossfield|Scott Crossfield]], became the first team to reach twice the speed of sound. After they were bested, Ridley and Yeager decided to beat rival Crossfield's speed record in a flight series that they dubbed "Operation NACA Weep." Not only did they beat Crossfield, but they did it in time to spoil a celebration planned for the [[Wright brothers|50th anniversary of flight]] in which Crossfield was to be called "the fastest man alive." The Ridley/Yeager USAF team achieved Mach 2.44 on December 12, 1953. Shortly after reaching Mach 2.44, he experienced a loss of aerodynamic control due to [[inertial coupling]] at approximately {{convert|80000|ft|m|abbr=on}}., Yeager lost control of the X-1A. With the aircraft out of control, simultaneously rolling, pitching and yawing out of the sky, Yeager dropped {{convert|51000|ft|m}} in 51 seconds until regaining control of the aircraft at approximately {{convert|29000|ft|m}}. He was able to land the aircraft without further incident.<ref name="yeagerbio_252" />

[[File:Charles Yeager photo portrait head on shoulders left side.jpg|right|thumb|]]

Yeager was foremost a fighter pilot and held several squadron and wing commands. From May 1955 to July 1957 he commanded the [[F-86|F-86H Sabre]]-equipped 417th Fighter-Bomber Squadron (50th Fighter-Bomber Wing) at [[Frankfurt-Hahn Airport|Hahn AB]], [[Germany]], and [[Toul-Rosieres Air Base]], [[France]]; and from 1957 to 1960 the [[F-100 Super Sabre|F-100D]]-equipped [[1st Fighter Squadron (United States)|1st Fighter Day Squadron]] (later, while still under Yeager's command, re-designated the 306th Tactical Fighter Squadron) at [[George Air Force Base]], California, and [[Morón Air Base]], [[Spain]].

In 1962, after completion of a year's studies at the [[Air War College]], he was the first commandant of the [[U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School|USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School]], which produced astronauts for [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration|NASA]] and the USAF, after its redesignation from the USAF Flight Test Pilot School. An accident during a test flight in one of the school's [[Lockheed NF-104A|NF-104s]] put an end to his record attempts. Between December 1963 and January 1964,<ref name=Crash>[http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/NF-104A_crash_site.htm The Crash of Chuck Yeager's NF-104A], December 10, 1963</ref> Yeager completed five flights in the [[NASA M2-F1]] [[lifting body]].

In 1966 he took command of the 405th Tactical Fighter Wing at [[Clark Air Base]], the [[Philippines]], whose squadrons were deployed on rotational temporary duty (TDY) in [[South Vietnam]] and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. There he accrued another 414 hours of combat time in 127 missions, mostly in a [[B-57 Canberra|Martin B-57]] light bomber. In February 1968, he was assigned command of the [[4th Fighter Wing|4th Tactical Fighter Wing]] at [[Seymour Johnson Air Force Base]], [[North Carolina]], and led the [[F-4 Phantom II|F-4 Phantom]] wing in [[South Korea]] during the [[USS Pueblo (AGER-2)|''Pueblo'' crisis]].

On June 22, 1969, he was promoted to [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]], and was assigned in July as the vice-commander of the [[Seventeenth Air Force]]. In 1971, Yeager was assigned to [[Pakistan]] to advise the [[Pakistan Air Force]] at the behest of [[Ambassador|then-Ambassador]] Joe Farland.<ref name="yeagerbio_391">''Yeager: An Autobiography''. Page 391 (paperback).</ref> Prior to the start of hostilities of the [[Bangladesh War]] he is reported to have said that the Pakistani army would be in New Delhi within a week.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_v17/ai_3959887/pg_4?tag=artBody;col1 The right stuff in the wrong place - Chuck Yeager's crash landing in Pakistan]
Washington Monthly,  Oct, 1985  by Edward C. Ingraham</ref> During the war, his twin-engined Beechcraft was destroyed in an Indian air raid on the [[Chaklala]] air base - he was reportedly incensed and demanded US retaliation.<ref>{{Cite web
|title=How I crossed swords with Chuck Yeager |author=Admiral Arun Prakash |url = http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1971War/ArunPrakash.html}}</ref> Despite Pakistan's surrender to India in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]], Yeager stayed in Pakistan until March 1973, and recalled his stay in Pakistan as one of the most enjoyable times of his life. During his stay he spent most of his time flying in an [[F-86 Sabre]] with the Pakistan Air Force and making several expeditions to the [[K2]] mountain, vacationing in [[Swat, Pakistan]], trekking and hunting in the [[Northern Areas]] and learning the [[Urdu]] language.<ref>http://www.defence.pk/forums/military-history/18071-who-won-air-war-1971-a.html</ref>
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==== Merits ====
[[Fail:COMMAND PILOT WINGS.png|120px]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[USAF Aeronautical Ratings#Pilot ratings|Command pilot]]

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|[[Silver Star]], for shooting down five [[Bf109|Bf 109s]] in one day,<ref name="yeagerbio_73">''Yeager: An Autobiography''. Page 73 (paperback).</ref> with one [[oak leaf cluster]]
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|[[Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)|Distinguished Flying Cross]], for an [[Me 262]] kill,<ref name="yeagerbio_76">''Yeager: An Autobiography''. Page 76 (paperback).</ref> with two oak leaf clusters, including first to break the sound barrier
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|[[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]], for helping rescue a fellow airman from Occupied France,<ref name="yeagerbio_45" /> with “V” device
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|[[Air Force Outstanding Unit Award]]
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|[[American Campaign Medal]]
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|[[European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal]] (8 battle stars)
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|[[World War II Victory Medal]]
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|[[Presidential Medal of Freedom]]
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* [[Congressional Silver Medal]] (1976), for breaking the sound barrier for the first time.<ref name="yeagerbio_413-414">''Yeager: An Autobiography''. Pages 413-414 (paperback).</ref><ref name="yeager_csmoh">[http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1142 "Presentation of a Special Congressional Silver Medal to Brigadier-General Charles E. Yeager, United States Air Force (Retired)"], National Museum of the United States Air Force.</ref>

* [[Collier Trophy]] and [[Mackay Trophy]], for breaking the sound barrier for the first time.

== Rujukan ==
{{Reflist|2}}

== Bacaan lanjut ==
* <s>{{Cite web
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|url=http://www.medalofhonor.com/ChuckYeager.htm
|title=Chuck Yeager
|publisher=MedalofHonor.com
|archive-date=2008-10-13
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013160743/http://www.medalofhonor.com/ChuckYeager.htm
|url-status=dead
}}</s> "Page not found | Medal of Honor Coming October 12, 2010" ''[game website, accessed]''
* Hallion, Richard P. ''Designers and Test Pilots''. New York: Time-Life Books, 1982. ISBN 0-8094-3316-8.
* Pisano, Dominick A., van der Linden, R. Robert and Winter, Frank H. ''Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1: Breaking the Sound Barrier''. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (in association with Abrams, New York): 2006. ISBN 0-8109-5535-0.
* Yeager, Chuck, Cardenas, Bob, Hoover, Bob, Russell, Jack and Young, James. ''The Quest for Mach One: A First-Person Account of Breaking the Sound Barrier''. New York: Penguin Studio, 1997. ISBN 0-670-87460-4.
* Yeager, Chuck and Leerhsen, Charles. ''Press on! Further Adventures in the Good Life''. New York: Bantam Books, 1988. ISBN 0-553-05333-7.
* Yeager, Chuck, and Leo Janos. ''Yeager: An Autobiography''. New York: Bantam, 1985. ISBN 978-0553256741.

== Pautan luar ==
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* [http://www.chuckyeager.com Official Website]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=177270074 General Yeager's MySpace Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117020027/http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile |date=2007-11-17 }}
* [http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/yea0pro-1 Academy of Achievement Profile]
* [http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0011a.shtml "Chuck Yeager & the Sound Barrier"]
* [http://www.chuckyeager.org Fan website and original Yeager Website]
* [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/x1/chuck.html Charles E. (Chuck) Yeager on the NASA web site.]
* [http://www.edwards.af.mil/history/docs_html/people/yeager_biography.html Edwards AFB Bio on BG Yeager] [http://web.archive.org/web/20060502161501/http://www.edwards.af.mil/history/docs_html/people/yeager_biography.html Archive.org]
* [http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/NF-104A_crash_site.htm The Crash of Yeager's NF-104]
* [http://www.inl.net/hp/richieb/aces.html AcesWild: The Race to Mach 1 by Al Blackburn, SR Books 1999]
* [http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1971War/ArunPrakash.html ''How I crossed swords with Chuck Yeager''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329150747/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1971War/ArunPrakash.html |date=2010-03-29 }}, Indian Navy Chief of Staff, Adm. Arun Prakash's article on strafing Yeager's aircraft during the '71 war.
* [http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/NF-104A_crash_site.htm The Crash of Chuck Yeager's NF-104A]
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{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
| NAME              =Yeager, Chuck
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| DATE OF BIRTH     =13 Februari 1923
| PLACE OF BIRTH    =[[Myra, West Virginia]]
| DATE OF DEATH     =
| PLACE OF DEATH    =
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yeager, Chuck}}
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