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John Gillespie Magee Jr. (9 June 1922 – 11 December 1941) [1] [2] [3] was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who wrote the sonnet "High Flight". He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.
Sep 3, 2013 · One day in late August or early September, 1941, a 19-year-old Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot named John Gillespie Magee, Jr., who was then serving with the No. 412 Squadron in Royal Air Force Digby, England, sent a letter to his parents. “I am enclosing a verse I wrote the other day,” he began. …
John Gillespie Magee Jr. was born in Shanghai, China to missionary parents. His father was American and his mother was British; Magee moved to England in the early 1930s to attend St. Clare’s and then Rugby School, where he won the Poetry Prize in 1938.
High Flight is a 1941 sonnet written by war poet John Gillespie Magee Jr. and inspired by his experiences as a fighter pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II.
In August or September 1941, Pilot Officer Magee composed "High Flight" and sent a copy to his parents. Several months later, on Dec. 11, 1941, his Spitfire collided with another plane over England, and Magee, only 19 years of age, crashed to his death.
Apr 18, 2021 · Group Commander W.A. Curtis pins a set of RCAF wings to Pilot Officer (P/O) John Gillespie Magee, Jr., at the end of his training on T-6 Texan aircraft in Ottawa, Canada. Credit: RCAF Magee was put into the cockpit of a Supermarine Spitfire Mk I, and he had his first flight on August 7, 1941.
‘High Flight (An Airman’s Ecstasy)’ is the one well-known poem by John Gillespie Magee (1922-41), an Anglo-American fighter pilot who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
