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While the Battle of Britain raged on, a countless number of Americans crossed the border into Canada to enlist with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Although they were aware that they were breaking the law they volunteered to fight Hitler’s Germany. The United States Government was still considered neu .. .. more >>

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"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings ...
And while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God."
John Gillespie Magee (c. 1922-1941), U.S.-born pilot with Royal Canadian Air Force. High Flight (written 1941). first and last lines of the sonnet. Magee died while on a bombing mission over Germany. The verse was later quoted by President Ronald Reagan following the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986.

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John Gillespie Magee, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Junior (June 9, 1922 – December 11, 1941) was an Anglo-American aviator and poet who died as a result of a mid-air ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee,_Jr.

Great Aviation Quotes: High Flight by John Magee
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. During the desperate days of the Battle of Britain, hundreds of Americans ... John Gillespie Magee, Jr., was one such American. ...
http://www.skygod.com/quotes/highflight.html

Slip the surly bonds of earth...
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. 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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Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee
John Gillespie Magee, the author of High Flight is buried in Holy Cross, Scopwick.
http://www.macla.co.uk/scopwick/magee.php

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