The True Story of Chuck Yeager, the Downed Pilot Who Carried a Wounded Comrade Across the Pyrenees

👉 We're now live on Spotify. 🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2wie10j... In March 1944, in a village in southwest France, a woman of about 60 lay in bed with rheumatism and questioned a wounded stranger. She asked if he was married. He said no. So why, she asked, was he wearing a ring on the finger where a married man wears one? One wrong judgment could hand everyone who'd helped him that morning to the German security police. The young American was a 21-year-old flight officer named Chuck Yeager. Three years later he'd be the first man to fly faster than sound — but first he had to cross the Pyrenees on foot, carrying a badly wounded airman through the snow. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Y... https://airforceescape.org/afees-in-m... https://chuckyeager.com/category/escape