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who could miraculously survive deserve “real special attention.”
With the German doctors’ help, Magee fully recovered.
Jenkins said Magee later hiked and backpacked and “led a pretty good life.”
Two of his crewmen also survived. In all, 75 airman died, seven U.S. planes were destroyed and 47 were damaged that day, he said.
Magee was a prisoner of war until May 1945. He received the Air Medal for meritorious conduct and the Purple Heart.
“Alan was never the type to look in the past,” Greene said. “He always was looking forward living for the moment.
Despite the harrowing experience, Magee loved to fly. He qualified for a private pilot’s license. His career included the air freight business and airline reservations.
On Jan. 3, 1993, Magee and the other two crewmen were guests of the St. Nazaire townspeople. The hosted a banquet and erected a six-foot-tall memorial to salute the Snap! Crackle! Pop! Crew.
“He was very excited and honored,” Jenkins said.
Magee is survived by his wire, Helen; a sister, Adele, six nieces and three nephews. A celebration of his life will be held this spring.

Text Box: JOHN PAUL JONES FATHER OF THE U.S. NAVY

His real name was John Paul, and he was born in Scotland
He was apprenticed on a ship at the age of 13.
The ship sailed from Scotland to Virginia.
He studied Navigation in VA.
He served on 2 slave ships, as a mate.
He sailed back to Scotland, but on the return trip both the Captain and Mate died, and he took command and sailed the ship back to Scotland.
The owners of the ship gave him his own command at age 21
He was terribly disliked by his men, and was said to be very demanding and harsh.
He was brought to trial twice on murder charges. He got afraid for his life, during the second trial, and fled back to Virginia for safety, where he changed his name to John Jones.
He could not find any work, so went to the Navy and was commissioned at a LT in the Continental Navy, where he took command of the Alfred. The Alfred was the first commissioned U.S. Naval Ship.
Jones raised the first American flag to fly on a naval vessel.
He refused several commands, because he felt them beneath him.
In a raid he captured a British transport ship, loaded with clothing, and was promoted to Captain.
He was named as 18th on the promotion list, and was so angry, that for the rest of his naval career he criticized the Navy.
He commanded the Ranger, and captured the British ship Drake, after an hour's fight off the shore of Ireland.
He then got command of a rotton 40 gunship which he renamed the Bonhomme Richard, after Ben Franklin. With this same ship, he captured 17 other ships.
In 1779 off Flamborough Head, England, he engaged into a battle with the Seripas, and Countess of Scarborough. These were large 50 and 20 gun ships. Jones ship, the Bonhomme Richard, eventually sank, but the Seripas surrendered before it did.
He then stayed in Paris and enjoyed his fame, and was given command of the 74 gun ship America.
Jones then decided to go to Europe, and accept a Rear Admiral commission in the Russian Navy in 1783. But he had an argument with Prince Potemkin, and returned to Paris, where he died at age 43.
Jones remains returned to the United States in 1905, and he is now buried in a crypt beneath the Naval Academy Chapel.
In his lifetime, he had few friends, and was never married.
His famous statement, "I have not yet begun to fight", was said during his fight with the Seripas, when his own ship was sinking and in peril, and he was asked if he would surrender. –
The rest is history!

Text Box: Subject: Senior Discount!

Last year I replaced several windows in my house. They were the expensive double-insulated energy efficient windows. This week I got a call from the contractor complaining that the work has been done for a year and I had failed to pay for them. Boy, oh boy, did we go 'round and 'round. I told him no one pulls a fast one on this little old lady. Even though I am a senior citizen and used to be a blonde, doesn't mean that I am automatically stupid! I proceeded to tell him just what his salesman told me last year; that, "in one year they would pay for themselves".

Text Box: Boot Camp, the New Version

CHICAGO - Generations of recruits at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center have marched from barracks to classroom, classroom to barracks, barracks to mess hall - more than a mile and a half a day for their nine weeks of basic training.
"Two years ago, we did more marching than even the Marine Corps or the Army," said Rear Adm. Ann Rondeau, commander of the center in North Chicago.
But the nation's only boot camp for Navy enlistees is undergoing a major change - and less marching for the roughly 45,000 recruits who pass through every year is only a part of it.
Instead of wasting training time by making recruits adapt to the aging base, the base is adapting to them. The result, Rondeau and others say, should be better-trained, healthier sailors who are prepared to serve from the day they graduate.
Two years ago, recruits were allotted six and a half hours of sleep. Today, they get eight hours, a reflection that most people need that much shuteye to be healthy and to learn effectively.
Recruits no longer spend a week of their training on kitchen duty. Meals are handled by a private company, leaving more time for training in fighting, survival and counterterrorism techniques.
The two giant dining halls are disappearing, to be replaced by galleys in the barracks.
Fifteen new barracks are being built containing classroom and training areas; each will be named after a famous ship from Navy history in an attempt to imbue Navy lore in sailors from the start.
They will replace barracks with antiquated ventilation systems
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Text Box: CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE BEER DRINKER
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel shamed. Then I look intothe glass and thinka bout the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, “It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.” Jack Handy

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