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For Clarence “Bud” Anderson, Charles Yeager was a nearly lifelong best friend and colleague. The two men are storied names in Air Force and aviation history, sharing careers which extended from World War II, through test piloting, to the Vietnam War and beyond. Yeager, of course, was the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound, flying the rocket-powered Bell X-1 above what’s now Edwards Air Force Base. He went on to fly everything from a captured MiG fighter jet to experimental lifting bodies, and led a B-57 Canberra bomber squadron over Vietnam before eventually ...

CASTILE — Chuck Yeager and Robert Uhrig knew they were in trouble. Yeager, of course, was a legend — a World War II fighter ace, military test pilot and the first person ever to exceed the speed of sound. Uhrig was an expert maintenance and engineering officer who served beside him at Edwards Air Force Base and beyond. They were supposed to pick up their families at the train station in what was then Frankfurt, West Germany, after the wives and children made an unpleasant voyage across the Atlantic by ship. But Yeager and Uhrig’s love of hunting got the better of them, and they...