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TIL about Alan Magee, "the Miracle of Saint Nazaire"a B17 gunner who fell approximately 20,000 feet without a parachute, and survived crashing through the skylight at the railway station in Saint Nazaire (France). He survived the war as a POW, and lived until 2003.

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