Flying ace Chuck Yeager, admired in war and peace and nonfiction literature, reminisced about his days in the cockpit of a World War II fighter plane.

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"The objective was to get as close as you could to the guy you were dog-fighting and fit the barrel . . . right up his fanny and pull the trigger," Yeager, said at the Experimental Aviation Association's 40th annual fly-in in Oshkosh, Wis.

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