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Mr. Jacobs shares his positive attitude towards treatment amongst his fellow soldiers.
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Comradery. Canada, of course, in the Second World War did not segregate. I was the only black guy in my outfit. And in that camp, it was a large camp with all kinds of people coming and going and training and so on like that. There’d be maybe 5000 people at any given time in that camp. I only saw one other black guy in all the time that I was there. I was well treated, I was highly respected. I’m sure that if it hadn’t been for policy because that’s what it really was, if it hadn’t been for policy I would have been, I would have advanced much more, well I didn’t advance at all. I would have advanced. I went in as a Private and came out as a Private.