me a P-39" (Yeager 14).
             After going through all the training Chuck was ready for combat, in 1943 he was
             sent to World War II. During this time, Chuck was assigned to the country of England, flying a P-51 Mustang, like all of the planes that were assigned to him, he named it Glamorous Glennis after his later wife Glennis Dickhouse. A P-51 Mustang like most all aircraft used in World War II, was a propeller driven aircraft equipped with machine guns on each wing that could be controlled by the pilot. Later in the war, the Germans introduced the first jet plane, it was called the Messerschmitt Me 262, to which Chuck had the pleasure of shooting down in his slower P-51 Mustang.
             On 5 March 1944, Chuck was shot down over German occupied England on his ninth mission, he was forced to eject and hurt his leg in the process. When he landed, he quickly got away from the site, for the Germans would surly be looking for him. Chuck then proceeded through the forest in which he landed, finding a French woodsman. Chuck asked the man for help, though very leery, for he did not know if the man would turn him into the Germans. The man ended up helping Chuck begin a
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