John Gillespie Magee Jr.

Royal Canadian Air Force officer and poet

Born
1922
John Gillespie Magee Jr. was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who wrote the sonnet "High Flight". He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.

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