Sunday, May 1, 2022

Ava Gardner and Chuck Yeager, 1945

 


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  1. Typical Johnston County, NC girl.

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    1. All Mouth and No Ears! She'd have been great on the old "Alligator 'Net" - 3.895.

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  2. Love the.look on Yeager's face.

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  3. Never liked her in anything, and my cinematic highlight reel of her consists of her drowning in the sewers of L.A. in Earthquake!. I cheered.

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  4. Sorry to be picky, but actually a few years later than 1945. USAF did not disclose Yeager's achievement in breaking the sound barrier until June 1948. His notoriety followed. I think those are captain's bars, which would date this photo between 1948 and 1951, when he breveted to major.

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