John Magee (missionary)

Their oldest son went on to write the famous poem High Flight, when he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.

Some people wanted to buy Magee's original film for large sums of money for political purposes, yet he would not budge.

Magee managed to film abuses of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers during the Nanjing Massacre in December 1937.

On 10 February 1938, the Legation Secretary of the German Embassy, Rosen, wrote to his Foreign Ministry about a film made in December by Magee to recommend its purchase.

«During the Japanese reign of terror in Nanking – which, by the way, continues to this day to a considerable degree – the Reverend John Magee, a member of the American Episcopal Church Mission who has been here for almost a quarter of a century, took motion pictures that eloquently bear witness to the atrocities committed by the Japanese.

(....) One will have to wait and see whether the highest officers in the Japanese army succeed, as they have indicated, in stopping the activities of their troops, which continue even today (...)»[3] Magee's role in documenting the Nanjing Massacre is featured in the Chinese film Don't Cry, Nanking.