Joey Jacobson's War

A Jewish Canadian Airman in the Second World War

de Peter J. Usher (auteur), Braden Wright (lecteur)

Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

mai 2022

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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.

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Résumé

challenges the prevalent view that bomber crews did not know or believe in what they were doing
letters and diaries written in the moment placed in context of the early air offensive against Germany
Joey Jacobson was a young Jewish man, provides different perspective than many accounts
Joey Jacobson spent time at the follow BCATP (British Commonwealth Air Training Plane) airbases: Regina (#3 Air Observer School); Mossbank, SK (#2 Bombing and Gunnery School); Rivers, MB (#1Air Navigation School); Also discusses leave in Moose Jaw. He also spent time in Preston (Cambridge) before enlisting. There is a lot of discussion of the local communities in the book.

Auteur

Peter J. Usher (auteur)

Peter J. Usher was born in Montreal in 1941. For many years he studied, wrote about, and advised on the environmental and social effects of resource development in Canada's North. Inspired by his cousin Joey Jacobson's letters and diaries, he began writing about the experience of Canadian airmen in the Second World War. He is married and lives near Clayton, Ontario.

Auteur(s) : Peter J. Usher