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About Sydney S. Shulemson
- Sydney Simon Shulemson DFC (October 22, 1915 – January 25, 2007) was a Canadian fighter pilot, and Canada's highest decorated Jewish soldier, during World War II.His paternal grandparents came from a town called Bacau in southern Romania and arrived in Montreal in the late nineteenth century when Shul was seven years old.Growing up in Montreal, Shulemson attended McGill University.
- He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force on September 10, 1939, and graduated from flight school in 1942.
- He joined RCAF 404 Squadron in Wick in Scotland, flying a Bristol Beaufighter.
- Shulemson downed a German flying boat on his first sortie.
- He pioneered techniques for rocket attacks on Axis ships in the North Atlantic.After the war, Shulemson located aircraft and recruited pilots for Israel's growing Israeli Air Force.Shulemson married in 1989.
- He died in Florida in 2007.
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