Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Aikin Yeager ya fara ne a Yaƙin Duniya na II a matsayin ɗan soja a cikin Sojojin Amurka, wanda aka sanya shi ga Sojojin Sojan Sama a 1941. Bayan ya yi aiki a matsayin injiniyan jirgin sama, a watan Satumbar 1942, ya shiga horar da matukin jirgi kuma bayan kammala karatunsa an ba shi mukamin jami'in jirgin sama (Jaridar Sojan Sama ta Sojan Sama ta Sojan Sama ta Sojan Sama), daga baya ya sami mafi yawan nasarorin da ya samu a matsayin matukin jirgin sama na P-51 Mustang a Yammacin Yamma.
, inda aka yaba masa da harbe jirgin sama na abokan gaba 11.5 (rabin bashi daga matukin jirgi na biyu yana taimaka masa a harbi daya). A ranar 12 ga Oktoba, 1944, ya sami matsayin "ace a cikin rana", ya harba jiragen sama biyar na abokan gaba a cikin manufa daya.