Addition to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
My biography of Joseph Alfred (Joey) Jacobson has been published online in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. View the entry here
Tag Archive: Jewish History
On This Day — 30 March 1942
Eighty-two years ago today, on 30 March 1942, Britain launched a desperate attempt. to destroy Nazi Germany’s largest battleship, the Tirpitz. The Allies’ fortunes were at a low ebb at that point in the war, and the Tirpitz, anchored near Trondheim, Norway, posed an immediate threat to Murmansk-bound convoys carrying aid to Soviet Russia. The…
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