Crestwood has been fortunate to visit the Sunnybrook Veterans Wing many times since we started our partnershipin 2008. Many Sunnybrook veterans have shared their impressions of the war and of the surrounding period. None has been able to do more effectively than Ted Smith, who we met in May 2012. Ted was a pilot in World War Two, and he is a gifted storyteller with an incredible memory for those slices of life we endeavour to find. Ted also kept a slew of his WW2 memorabilia, including a photo album that literally chronicles his life all through the war years. There was so much to say that we had to go back to see Ted a second time!
Ted was interviewed for this project by Michael Lawee and Zach Brown, with Antony Cook coming along on the second trip.
Videos
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- 1. Ted Smith - Prewar Memories
- 2. Flight Training
- 3. Elementary Flying School
- 4. Overseas
- 5. Posting at Plymouth
- 6. D-Day Approaches
- 7. Flying Typhoons
- 8. Favourite Aircraft to Fly; The Joy of Flying
- 9. Looking at the Photo Album
- 10. Friends 4
- 11. Billetting with the Barnards
- 12. The Admiral
- 13. The Typhoon and Falaise Pocket
- 14. The Flight Shack
- 15. Ted on Leave!
- 16. The Squadrons; The War's End
- 17a. Belsen
- 17. The Horrors of the Holocaust - Belsen
- 18. Ted in France; Conclusion
- 19. Reaction to the End of the War and the Atomic Bomb
- 20. Job after the War
- 21. Colonialism in Fiji
- 22. Coming Home to Canada
- 23. Feelings on Going to War
