From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxa!cfiaime Newsgroups: net.misc Title: re: High Flight Article-I.D.: ihuxa.194 Posted: Thu Feb 17 12:46:52 1983 Received: Tue Feb 22 06:39:58 1983 Reply-To: cfiaime@ihuxa.UUCP (Jeff Williams) The author of "High Flight", John Gillespie Magee Jr., was a Pilot Officer serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force in England during 1941. He was killed when his Spitfire collided with another airplane in a cloud. He was 19 when he was killed, December, 1941. The poem was written on the back of a letter to his mother in the late summer of 1941. It was first published in a church bulletin at his home parish. The original poem and the full story behind its publication are at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Jeff Williams BTL/Indian Hill