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R.I.P. Norman Jewison, WWII veteran and 12-time Oscar winner, the filmmaker behind Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck, In the Heat of the Night, and The Thomas Crown Affair, has died at age 97. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy (1944–1945) during World War II.

Before making his way into cinema and film production, Jewison served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. When Jewison was just 13 years old, he saw the war effort first-hand in Canada. "The whole production of the country, from food to material to clothing, everything was being built and focused toward the war," he told Canadian Encyclopedia. "There weren't even silk stockings, so women were painting their legs. It was unbelievable. Everybody was involved and totally committed to winning this war and supporting the troops. I've never seen a society so focused."

According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, "Jewison's relatives almost all served as army reservists during the war. His uncle Charlie was a sergeant major in the 48th Highlanders, and his father was a sharpshooter with the Queen's Own Rifles. Jewison, however, had joined the Sea Cadets in high school — 'one way to get the attention of girls' — and at 17 he volunteered for the Royal Canadian Navy.

"After basic training in Québec City he was shipped to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, the largest naval training base in the British Empire, where three giant words painted on the side of a building beside the parade square, expressed the sentiment of the time: "Learn to Serve."

"The war was in its final months by the time Jewison made it to sea, working as a signalman on a Canadian corvette, escorting merchant ships up the east coast from Maine to Newfoundland, where the freighters and oil tankers would gather for convoys across to England. The Battle of the Atlantic had largely been won by 1945, and Jewison himself never saw direct combat.

'I was disappointed that I never got to cross the Atlantic and shoot up some U-boats,' he said. 'That's what I really wanted to do.' The U-boats, however, were still sniffing around American and Canadian ports, occasionally sinking ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 'You were aware of the danger, aware that the war was going on,' says Jewison. But his only glimpse of the enemy came after Germany's surrender in May, When his ship escorted 'a bunch of sorry-looking German prisoners from a submarine that had sailed into a Canadian port to give themselves up. They were tired; their fearsome white turtleneck sweaters were filthy with oil and sweat. They stank. When we herded them into a train bound for an internment camp somewhere up North, I gave one of them a pack of cigarettes.'"

WE ARE THE MIGHTY

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"Just me and the work. Alone and efficient. Alone."
This clip is from Tomorrow's World.
He was one of the main presenters of the BBC1 science series Tomorrow's World from 1965 to 1971 and created and presented the television series Connections (1978), and its more philosophical sequel The Day the Universe Changed (1985), about the history of science and technology. The Washington Post has called him "one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world".