Farley Mowat - not just an author

[Photon440]

I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with his books, such as "Never Cry Wolf" which was made into the movie in 1983.

But I didn't know that he had another job, as an intelligence officer. He was responsible for sneaking a German V2 rocket away from British hands and back into Canada after the war, as told here: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent...at-smuggled-a-v2-rocket-into-canada-1.5850130

 

[CHARGERSTEVEN]

Thats a very interesting read,I read every book he wrote as a youngster n dont ever remember any thing mention about his war years,I wonder if some of his books reflected those days n comparing it with the Canadian wilderness

 

[440 4 speed]

Still have some of his books. Will probably read them again this winter. Grey Seas Under will be first.

 

[gkent]

Persona non grata in the U.S. !!!

I read "The boat who wouldn't float" and "The dog who wouldn't be". Maybe I'll read his other stuff some day.

 

[CHARGERSTEVEN]

Persona non grata in the U.S. !!!

I read "The boat who wouldn't float" and "The dog who wouldn't be". Maybe I'll read his other stuff some day.

security risk lol

 

[Lighthorseman]

“And No Birds Sang” chronicles some of his WWII experience.

 

[Islandkent]

All us good little Canucks use to read him as children. lol

 

[moparedtn]

Persona non grata in the U.S. !!!

Might have something to do with that whole "I'm going to start shooting at your planes" bit he pulled...
I know US intelligence was concerned with all the trips to the USSR at one point also.

 

[gkent]

American paranoia !!

 

[Sahara]

Amazing war heroes are all around us, sadly there’s fewer every year.
As part of her med school training daughter does shifts at an old persons home. One of her “peeps” is a widow who worked in intelligence with her husband during the Cold War. By all appearances she’s just someone’s granny, but in her past life she was like 007’s Moneypenny.
Years ago the preacher at the Anglican Church was former British Army, disarming IRA bombs in the sixties and seventies. Fascinating stories. One of wife’s friends was a radio receiver guy, stationed at Alert in the very high arctic. Monitoring Russian radio traffic. He said the Ruskies knew that they were being listened to and were always baiting them, hoping to get a response.

 

[gkent]

My uncle flew THREE bomber tours in WWII.