| Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee
was serving in the 412 Squadron,
Royal Canadian Air Force, at RAF Wellingore in Lincolnshire when he was killed in a flying accident in December 1941, aged 19 years |
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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of; wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air… Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
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