Alan Eugene Magee (January 13, 1919 – December 20, 2003) was an American airman during World War II who survived a 22,000 foot (6,700 m) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress. He was featured in Smithsonian Magazine as one of the 10 most amazing survival stories of World War II. Alan Magee was born in Plainfield, New Jersey as the youngest of six children.
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- Alan Eugene Magee (January 13, 1919 – December 20, 2003) was an American airman during World War II who survived a 22,000 foot (6,700 m) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress. He was featured in Smithsonian Magazine as one of the 10 most amazing survival stories of World War II. Alan Magee was born in Plainfield, New Jersey as the youngest of six children. Immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack Magee joined the United States Army Air Corps and was assigned as a ball turret gunner on a B-17 bomber nicknamed "Snap, Crackle, and Pop". On 3 January 1943 Magee's B-17 was on a daylight bombing run over Saint-Nazaire, France when German fighters shot off a section of the right wing causing the aircraft to enter a deadly spin. This was Magee's seventh mission. Magee was wounded in the attack but managed to escape from the ball turret. Unfortunately, his parachute had been damaged and rendered useless by the attack, so having no choice, he leapt from the plane without a parachute, rapidly losing consciousness due to the altitude. Magee fell over four miles before crashing through the glass roof of the St. Nazaire railroad station. Somehow the glass roof mitigated Magee's impact and rescuers found him still alive 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 the damage from the fall. He had several broken bones, severe damage to his nose and eye, and lung and kidney damage, and his right arm was nearly severed. Magee was liberated in May 1945 and received the Air Medal for meritorious conduct and the Purple Heart. After the war Magee earned his pilot's license and enjoyed flying. He worked in the airline industry in a variety of roles. He retired in 1979 and moved to northern New Mexico. On 3 January 1993 the people of St. Nazaire honored Magee and the crew of his bomber by erecting a 6-foot tall memorial to them. Alan Magee died in San Angelo, Texas on 20 December 2003 from stroke and kidney failure at the age of 84. A variation of this story was tested in an episode of MythBusters. In the episode, the crew tested the legend that an airman fell out of a plane and was saved by the shockwave of a bomb exploding through a glass train station. The version of the story tested suggests that the glass ceiling and the bomb shockwave would not have significantly mitigated the fall.
- Alan Eugene Magee war ein US-Amerikaner, der einen ungebremsten Sturz aus außergewöhnlicher Höhe überlebte. Magee, als jüngstes von sechs Geschwistern in Plainfield im US-Bundesstaat New Jersey geboren, hatte sich unmittelbar nach dem japanischen Angriff auf Pearl Harbor freiwillig zu den US Army Air Forces gemeldet. 1943 gehörte er als MG-Schütze im Range eines Staff Sergeants zur zehn-Mann-Crew eines in England stationierten B-17-Bombers mit dem Spitznamen Snap! Crackle! Pop!, der zu Angriffen auf Ziele im deutsch besetzten Frankreich eingeteilt war. Am 3. Januar 1943 nahm die Snap! Crackle! Pop! zusammen mit 84 weiteren B-17-Bombern an einem Angriff auf die U-Boot-Bunker von St. Nazaire teil. Über dem Zielgebiet gerieten die Flugzeuge in starkes Flakfeuer, wobei die Snap! Crackle! Pop! getroffen und stark beschädigt wurde. Zusätzlich schoß ein deutsches Jagdflugzeug Teile der rechten Tragfläche ab, so dass der Bomber abstürzte. Magee stellte fest, dass sein Fallschirm bei dem Angriff unbrauchbar geworden war und entschloss sich, trotz der großen Höhe ohne Schirm aus dem abstürzenden Flugzeug zu springen. Er verlor rasch das Bewusstsein und stürzte im freien Fall etwa 6000 Meter tief, bevor er auf das Glasdach des Bahnhofs von St. Nazaire aufschlug. Von dort wurde Alan Magee geborgen und mit zahlreichen Knochenbrüchen, teilweise schwerwiegenden äußeren und inneren Verletzungen sowie 28 durch Splitter von Flakgeschossen hervorgerufenen Wunden in ein deutsches Lazarett eingeliefert. Nach zweieinhalb Monaten in Behandlung konnte er in ein Kriegsgefangenenlager überstellt werden, wo er bis zum Kriegsende im Mai 1945 blieb. Nach seiner Befreiung wurde Magee mit der Air Medal und dem Purple Heart ausgezeichnet. Er arbeitete bis zu seiner Pensionierung im Jahre 1979 in der Luftfahrtindustrie und wurde zusammen mit zwei weiteren Überlebenden der Snap! Crackle! Pop!-Crew bei einem Besuch in St. Nazaire am 3. Januar 1993 von der Stadt geehrt. Alan Eugene Magee starb am 20. Dezember 2003 im Alter von 84 Jahren an den Folgen eines Schlaganfalls und Nierenstörungen in San Angelo, Texas.
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- Alan Eugene Magee war ein US-Amerikaner, der einen ungebremsten Sturz aus außergewöhnlicher Höhe überlebte. Magee, als jüngstes von sechs Geschwistern in Plainfield im US-Bundesstaat New Jersey geboren, hatte sich unmittelbar nach dem japanischen Angriff auf Pearl Harbor freiwillig zu den US Army Air Forces gemeldet.
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