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>The war itself took a heavy toll, and the intervening years have not been kind. Even as this book was being written, Adolf Galland, Georg-Peter Eder, and the Ace of Aces Erich Hartmann, all "went upstairs." For those remaining, fifty years have faded the memory. As an old Bf109 pilot told me, "The heroes are getting tired."
Yeager, too, "went upstairs" recently, one of the last of his generation. He was not taken on the wings of angels, for his own jet outraced the heavenly host. Nobody could beat him to St. Peter's gates.
A familiar face greeted him there.
"You're late, Liberion."
