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HIGH FLIGHT — A Eulogy for Fred Jones

It’s 6:30 in the evening in early October of 1943. Fred is strapping himself into a de Havilland Tiger Moth sitting on the short-cropped grass outside Hangar 3 at Number 13 Elementary Flying Training School St Eugene,…

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MAGEE — The Boy Hero and the Poet Legend

On 18 August 2016 it will be 75 years to the day since a teenager named Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr. lifted his Supermarine Spitfire Mk I from the aerodrome at…

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Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

MAGEE – Un jeune héros et poète légendaire

Le 18 août 2016, soit 75 ans jour pour jour après qu’un adolescent, le sous-lieutenant d’aviation John Gillespie Magee Jr., aux commandes de son Supermarine Spitfire Mk I a décollé de l’aérodrome Llandow de la RAF, au Pays de Galles, et a grimpé vers le soleil…

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