Joey Jacobson's War : A Jewish-Canadian Airman in the Second World War

The publisher's description of this book: "Joey Jacobson, a young Jewish man from Westmount on the Island of Montreal, trained as a navigator and bomb-aimer in Western Canada. On arriving in England he was assigned to No. 106 Squadron, a British RAF unit tasked with the bombing of Germany. Joey Jacobson's War tells, in his own words from his diary and letters, why he enlisted, his understanding of strategy, tactics, and the effectiveness of the air war at its lowest point, how he responded to the inevitable battle stress, and how he became both a hopeful idealist and a seasoned airman. Jacobson's written legacy as a serviceman is impressive in scope and depth and provides a lively and intimate account of a Jewish Canadian's life in the air and on the ground, written in the intensity of the moment, unfiltered by the memoirist's reflection, revision, or hindsight. Accompanying excerpts from his father's diary show the maturation of the relationship between father and son in a dangerous time." On the night of 28 January 1942, twenty-three year old Flight Sergeant Joseph Alfred Jacobson failed to return from his twenty-fourth bombing operation over enemy territory.

Waterloo, ON

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

2018

xix-394p.

en

978-1-77112-342-6