And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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.
Typical Johnston County, NC girl.
ReplyDeleteAll Mouth and No Ears! She'd have been great on the old "Alligator 'Net" - 3.895.
DeleteLove the.look on Yeager's face.
ReplyDeleteNever 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.
ReplyDeleteSorry 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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