The Yeager Tapes: General Chuck Yeager in His Own Words

Chuck Yeager, American Hero, the Original Right Stuff, tells his own story. Hear Glennis Yeager, Chuck Yeager's first wife tell stories, too. Here it is in General Yeager's and Glennis Yeager's own words.

If WWII hadn't come along when it did, Chuck Yeager probably would have been content to stay in the hills of West Virginia.

But the war in Europe intervened. Yeager enlisted because it was the patriotic thing to do and became an airplane mechanic because he told authorities he understood eng...