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Author USHER, PETER J

Title JOEY JACOBSON'S WAR : a jewish-canadian airman in the second world war
Published [Place of publication not identified] WILFRID LAURIER UNIV PR, 2018

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART ONE: Father and Son; One: September 1939; Two: Preston; Three: Enlistment; Four: Toronto; Five: Regina; Six: Mossbank; Seven: Rivers; Eight: Montreal; Nine: Debert; PART TWO: Discoveries; Ten: The North Atlantic; Eleven: The Blitz; Twelve: England; Thirteen: Operational Training; Fourteen: A CanadianĂ¢#x80;#x99;s Estimate of England; Fifteen: A Home Away from Home; Sixteen: Preparing for Battle; PART THREE: Night Bombing; Seventeen: Bomber Command; Eighteen: Initiation; Nineteen: Confidence Affirmed
Twenty: The Four HorsemenTwenty-One: Confidence Tested; Twenty-Two: A Brotherhood Lost; Twenty-Three: Action and Inaction; Twenty-Four: Questions and Doubts; Twenty-Five: Winding Down; PART FOUR: Holding the Line; Twenty-Six: New Ideas; Twenty-Seven: December Doldrums; Twenty-Eight: New Directions; Twenty-Nine: 28 January 1942; PART FIVE: Failed to Return; Thirty: Requiem; Thirty-One: Holland; Thirty-Two: Epilogue; Notes on Sources; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary The story of a Jewish Canadian navigator in Bomber Command at the beginning of its offensive against Germany in 1941, as told through his own letters and diaries. Joey Jacobson was a privileged Montrealer whose wartime experience transformed him into a hopeful idealist and a seasoned airman before he was killed in action
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Jacobson, Joey
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 106.
SUBJECT Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 106 fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
Airmen -- Canada -- Biography
Flight navigators -- Canada -- Biography
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Airmen
Flight navigators
Military operations, Aerial -- British
Canada
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781771123433
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9781771123440
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