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Christopher Magee (fighter pilot)
Christopher Lyman Magee (1917–1995) was a United States Marine Corps aviator who became a fighter ace in World War II and was one of the more colorful members of the famous "Black Sheep" squadron, VMF-214. Known as a fearless and aggressive pilot he was credited with nine victories during the war〔(TIME OF THE ACES: Marine Pilots in the Solomons )〕〔Walton, 149〕 and for his heroic actions in September and October 1943 during the Solomon Islands campaign he was awarded the Navy Cross. After the war he dabbled in bootlegging, went to Israel and flew with the Haganah during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and later served 8 years in federal prison for bank robberies in the Chicago, Illinois area. Upon his return from prison he lived quietly on the North Side of Chicago working as a columnist and reporter for a community newspaper. He died of surgical complications while having stomach cancer tumors removed on December 27, 1995.
==Early life==
Magee was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1917 to Fred Magee and Marie nee Considine. Magee was given the same name as his great uncle Christopher Magee who was a powerful political boss in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who helped run the Republican Party machine that controlled the city for the last twenty years of the 19th century.In 1918 the family moved to the South Side of Chicago and his father took a job with the grain market exchange. He attended grade school at Saint Ambrose Parish and high school at Mount Carmel High School graduating in 1935.〔Reed, 10-17.〕
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