Pilot Officer JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE
Service Number: J/5823
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Canadian Air Force
412 Sqdn.
Date of Death
Died 11 December 1941
Age 19 years old
- Country of Service Canadian
- Additional Info Son of John Gillespie Magee and Faith Backhouse Magee, of Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Magee's poem "High Flight" found particular fame when the President of U.S.A., Ronald Reagen, used lines from the poem as part of his address to the American people, after the "Challenger" space-ship blew up, killing seven of the crew.
- Personal Inscription "OH I HAVE SLIPPED THE SURLY BONDS OF EARTH... PUT OUT MY HAND AND TOUCHED THE FACE OF GOD"
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