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