Jack Ford was born in 1921 and is currently 92 years old. He was born in Oklahoma City, in the United States but grew up in Canada. When the war broke out in 1939, he decided to enlist in the Canadian forces, even though it was not yet an American war. Jack joined the RCAF, where he was trained as a photographer. It was his job to develop pictures and to monitor the air force’s progress in the bombing campaign. We met Jack in his room at the Sunnybrook Veterans’ Wing in November 2013, where he was interviewed by Akib Shahjahan and Luca Lettieri.
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- 1. Jack Ford - Early Life
- 2. Before Going off to War
- 3. Born in the USA
- 4. Experience at Manning Depot
- 5. The Journey to England
- 6. His Job in the Air Force
- 7. Working Together
- 8. Attacked by German Aircraft
- 9. Meeting German Soldiers
- 10. Letters from Home
- 11. The D-Day Gliders
- 12. D-Day
- 13. Battles and Fighters
- 14. Landing in France
- 15. Remembering the King and Princess
- 16. Eindhoven; The Dutch People
- 17. Churchill; Remembrance Day
- 18. Personal Scars; Return to Canada
- 19. After the War, in the Netherlands
- 20. Jack Ford, in the Air Force
- 21. Landing
- 22. German POWs
- 23. Americans
- 24. Jan. 1, 1945
- 25. Leaving the War; Going Home
