60th Anniversary of Chuck Yeager’s Near-fatal Crash
Commemorated with My Portrait of a Super-sonic-hero
24 min readDec 14, 2023
My sister Carla’s late husband, Chuck Berman, a generation older than me, was a World War II Army Air Force veteran, a young bombardier in a B-17 Flying Fortress who earned a Purple Heart dodging Zeros over the Pacific. After the war, then college, he got a job as an engineer at North…
