Air Force veteran led World War II bombing missions, helped create Miramar National Cemetery
Retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert “Bob” Cardenas, a local and national military legend who led bombing missions during World War II and helped test pilots break the sound barrier, died Thursday on his 102nd birthday.
Cardenas was command pilot of the aircraft that famously launched Chuck Yeager’s Bell X-1 into supersonic flight in 1947, but most of the glory went to Yeager. Cardenas doesn’t appear in either the movie or the book “The Right Stuff,” which dramatized Yeager’s flight.Cardenas told the Union-Tribune it didn’t bother him at all.Overshadowed by Yeager -- and that’s how Cardenas prefers it
Details on services haven’t been finalized, but they will take place the last week of March at Miramar and include a formation flyover, his son said. He helped pilots launch and recover gliders as a teen, and his son said those experiences set him on the path he would take into aviation.
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