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1 online resource |
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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 Canadianâ#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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Jacobson, Joey.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 106.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 106. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Airmen -- Canada -- Biography.
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Airmen. |
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Canada. |
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Biographies.
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Flight navigators -- Canada -- Biography.
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Flight navigators. |
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1939-1945 |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1771123427 9781771123426 (OCoLC)974463378 |
| ISBN |
9781771123433 (electronic book) |
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1771123435 (electronic book) |
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9781771123440 (electronic book) |
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1771123443 (electronic book) |
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1771123427 |
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9781771123426 |
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