Wess McIntosh
Description
- Janette Schuringa, Interviewer
- Koorosh Zarezadeh, Editor
- Ken Wrigglesworth, Videographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Video
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- This image is a screenshot taken from a video produced by the Oakville Public Library and the Town of Oakville. This video is an interview with Wess McIntosh, a World War II veteran.
- Notes
- In this interview, Wess McIntosh speaks about his extensive involvement with the Canadian forces, first with the naval reserves and then with the airforce. Wes joined the navy in 1933, but he also started learning to fly in 1934. From there, he received his private pilot’s license in 1934 and his commercial license in 1935. In 1937, he made a trip to Vancouver for naval training and from there spent from January to April in the West Indies playing war games. When the war started, Wes was granted permission to leave the navy and signed up with the RCAF. Besides flying into Gibraltar from Bathurst, he flew all over Canada in wartime. Over the course of the war, he crossed the Atlantic 37 times.
- Publisher
- Oakville Public Library and the Town of Oakville
- Date of Original
- May 23, 2007
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- VIOI0012
- Collection
- Oakville at War Veteran Interviews
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.4473682625124 Longitude: -79.6665048808289
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Terms of Use
- Creative Commons Noncommercial: This work may be copied, distributed, displayed, and performed, as well as have derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.
- Contact
- Oakville Public LibraryEmail:oplreference@oakville.ca
Website:
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Tel: (905) 815-2042
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