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Jack flew the "Hump" in WWII
Beloved son, brother, uncle, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather 1920-2008
Jack Spicer Renney
Jack Renney, a World War II war hero who flew 89 missions on "The Hump" and owner of one of
Jack Renney was the son of Lyleton Earl Renney and Florence Viola Spicer Renney, fifth generation Californians, who had three children in addition to Jack. They included Earl Dabney Renney, Robert Lyleton Renney and Florence Renney Goeppert (all deceased). He was proud to grow up in
Jack and Jackie built their first-and-only home in
Flying the Hump
Jack flew the "Hump" in WWII
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High Flight
Oh, I have slipped
the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies
on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed,
and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds –
and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of –
wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.
Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting
wind along, and flung
My eager craft through
footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious,
burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights
with easy grace
Where never lark,
or even eagle flew
And, while with silent,
lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed
sanctity of space,
Put out my hand,
and touched the face of God.
– John Gillespie Magee
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