Alan Magee

Alan Eugene Magee
Born(1919-01-13)January 13, 1919
Plainfield, New Jersey
DiedDecember 20, 2003(2003-12-20) (aged 84)
San Angelo, Texas
AllegianceUSA
Service / branchUSAAF
Years of service1941–1945
RankStaff Sergeant
Unit303rd Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force
Battles / warsWorld War II
AwardsAir Medal
Purple Heart

Alan Eugene Magee (January 13, 1919 – December 20, 2003) was a United States airman during World War II who survived a 22,000-foot (6,700 m) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress.[1] He was featured in the 1981 Smithsonian Magazine as one of the 10 most amazing survival stories of World War II.

Military career and fall

Immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack, Magee joined the United States Army Air Forces and was assigned as a ball turret gunner on a B-17 bomber.

On January 3, 1943, his Flying Fortress—B-17F-27-BO, 41-24620, nicknamed "Snap! Crackle! Pop!"[2]—part of the 360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group,[3] was on a daylight bombing run over Saint-Nazaire, France. This was Magee's seventh mission.

Magee left his ball turret when it became inoperative after being damaged by German flak, and discovered his parachute had been torn and rendered useless. Another flak hit then blew off a section of the right wing, causing the aircraft to enter a deadly spin. Magee, in the process of moving from the bomb bay to the radio room, blacked out from lack of oxygen because of the high altitude and was thrown clear of the aircraft. He fell over 4 miles (6.4 km) before crashing through the glass roof of the St. Nazaire railroad station. The glass roof shattered, mitigating the force of Magee's final impact. Rescuers found him on the floor of the station.

Magee was taken as a prisoner of war and given medical treatment by his captors. He had 28 shrapnel wounds in addition to his injuries from the fall: several broken bones, severe damage to his nose and eye, lung and kidney damage, and a nearly severed right arm.

Magee was liberated in May 1945 and received the Air Medal for meritorious conduct and the Purple Heart. On January 3, 1993, the 50th anniversary of the attack, the people of St. Nazaire honored Magee and the crew of his bomber by erecting a 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) memorial to them.

Personal life

Magee was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, as the youngest of six children.

After the war, he earned his pilot's license and worked in the airline industry in a variety of roles. He retired in 1979 and moved to northern New Mexico. He died in San Angelo, Texas, on December 20, 2003, from stroke and kidney failure, at the age of 84.

See also

Fall survivors
Other

References

  1. ^ Nye, Logan. "The story of the World War II gunner who fell 22,000 feet without a parachute and lived". Business Insider.
  2. ^ B-17 #41-24620 "snap! crackle pop!" aircraft information from 303rdbg.com, Magee's unit.
  3. ^ "Alan Magee Story". 303rdbg.com. 1943-01-03. Retrieved 2010-05-08.

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