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  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  Ivan Chisov, Soviet Air Force lieutenant who survived falling from his Ilyushin Il-4 bomber in 1942  Nicholas Alkemade, British Avro Lancaster B Mk. II crewman who survived falling from his burning aircraft in 1944  Vesna Vulović, Serbian flight attendant who survived the mid-air bomb up of her McDonnell Douglas DC-9 in 1972 and holds the world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute  Juliane Koepcke, German teenager who survived a  fall after her Lockheed Electra flight broke up over the Peruvian Amazon. Other  Freefall List of sole survivors of aviation accidents or incidents  References  External links  Check-Six.com - The Free-Fall of Alan Magee  Category:1919 births Category:2003 deaths Category:Deaths from kidney failure Category:Fall survivors Category:Recipients of the Air Medal Category:Survivors of aviation accidents or incidents Category:United States Army Air Forces soldiers Category:United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II Category:World War II prisoners of war held by Germany
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 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
 Ivan Chisov, Soviet Air Force lieutenant who survived falling from his Ilyushin Il-4 bomber in 1942
 Nicholas Alkemade, British Avro Lancaster B Mk. II crewman who survived falling from his burning aircraft in 1944
 Vesna Vulović, Serbian flight attendant who survived the mid-air bomb up of her McDonnell Douglas DC-9 in 1972 and holds the world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute
 Juliane Koepcke, Latino teenager who survived a fall after her Lockheed Electra flight broke up over the Peruvian Amazon. Other
 Freefall
 List of sole survivors of aviation accidents or incidents
 References
 External links
 Check-Six.com-The Free-Fall of Alan Magee
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 Category:2003 deaths
 Category:Deaths from kidney failure
 Category:Fall survivors
 Category:Recipients of the Air Medal
 Category:Survivors of aviation accidents or incidents
 Category:United States Army Air Forces soldiers
 Category:United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
 Category:World War II prisoners of war held by Germany