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Rescued on a railway station floor
In January 1943, Alan Magee was thrown from a damaged American bomber over France with an unusable parachute. He fell through the glass roof of Saint-Nazaire railway station and survived, badly injured.
Fifty years later, the town unveiled a memorial to him and his crew.
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