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‘America’s greatest Pilot’ Chuck Yeager, first person to break sound barrier, dies at 97

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Born in West Virginia in 1923, Yeager rose to fame as a fighter pilot in World War II and, in 1947, was the first person to break the sound barrier.

      
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