Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

WILDMAN

When reading or researching history, it is easy to be drawn to the brightest lights, to be mesmerized by and enamoured of uncomplicated storylines, to wish for heroes and villains, to see only the deepest of blacks or the most…

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Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

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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