Maj. Chuck Yeager, right, Air Force pilot from West Virginia who flew a jet plane 1,600 miles per hour, comments on the Aviators' Valor Medal presented to him by Harold E. Talbott, left, Secretary of the Air Force, at the annual award dinner of Aviators Post 743, American Legion, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, May 12, 1954. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay is at center. Man at far left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons)