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High Flight - The Untold Story of Aviation's Greatest Poem, Pilot/Officer John G. Magee, Jr., RCAF
John Gillespie Magee, Jr., is the pilot and poet who composed aviation's most famous and greatest poem, “High Flight”. His story, one of bravery and self-sacrifice, is rarely told, even if his poem is well known. It reads: Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed ...
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