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Lost Black Sheep - The Search for WWII Ace Chris Magee (Paperback, 2nd)
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Lost Black Sheep - The Search for WWII Ace Chris Magee (Paperback, 2nd)
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Chris Magee was the leading ace under Major Gregory "Pappy"
Boyington of the Marine Corp's legendary Black Sheep Squadron. A
free-spirited intellectual with the heart of a warrior and the soul
of a poet, Magee grew up on Chicago's rambunctious South Side
dreaming of the day when he could fly fighter planes into combat.
Magee's determination to achieve his goal prompted him to join the
Royal Canadian Air Force as a flying cadet in 1941. Later, after
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought America into the war,
he transferred to the U.S. Marine Corps. Following completion of
flight training, he was sent to the South Pacific where his bravery
and piloting skills earned him both the enduring respect of his
fellow aviators and the Navy Cross. When the war ended, the
fiercely independent Magee refused to pursue a conventional
lifestyle or take advantage of the fame that awaited him in his
hometown, choosing instead to seek new adventures. During the next
twelve years he walked the razor's edge: black marketeer,
bootlegger, volunteer fighter pilot for the fledgling nation of
Israel, courier for a covert group of U.S. "businessmen" involved
in Latin American politics, and, eventually, bank robber. Magee
would pay dearly for the choices he made, losing family, friends,
and his cherished freedom. In his middle years, he turned his life
around and became a respected journalist. By age 70, he had
resigned himself to a stoic retirement in a rustic apartment on
Chicago's North Side. Then, one day, Chris Magee found an envelope
slipped under his front door with a note inside that ultimately
changed his life, causing him to revisit parts of his past he
thought were forever forgotten.
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