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Start giftingJoey Jacobson's War
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Learn more- 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) air
bases: Regina (#3 Air Observer School); Mossbank, SK (#2 Bombing and Gunnery School); Rivers, MB (#1
Air 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.
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.
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