High Flight
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title:
High Flight
text:
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. Magee began writing the poem on 18 August, while stationed at No. 53 OTU outside London, and mailed a completed manuscript to his family on 3 September, three months before he died in a training accident. Originally published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it was widely distributed when Magee became one of the first post-Pe
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description:
1941 poem by John Magee Jr.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Flight
date created:
2003-03-28T22:50:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T01:52:11Z
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