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Subject: Re: [OM] Doom-laden . . .
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 07:36:04 +0100
:-)

Most of the time you see High Flight, framed and on a wall, it is from a USAF 
exchange officer who has left it as a parting gift.  I hadn’t heard of the poem 
until I visited a USAF F15 squadron at Bitburg in Germany.

When we visited the Air Forces Memorial at Runymede 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Forces_Memorial> (some years ago)  I’m 
pretty sure that I saw Magee’s name there, although he has a grave in 
Lincolnshire, it appears.

Chris

> On 28 Aug 16, at 16:31, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I remember that. I see that I liked it at the time.
> 
> Did all RAF trainee pilots have to memorize High Flight?
> 
> I never got to drive anything more complex than a duce-and-a-half, a 2.5
> ton truck. Barrel rolls were a bitch!

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