This bombing made us youngsters very annoyed , causing many to volunteer and take the King’s shilling.
This raises an interesting point. English aircrew like yourself certainly might have had this type of 'motivational' experience to encourage enlistment - but the men who came from Australia and New Zealand and South Africa and Canada and all of those places likely wouldn't have had any direct experience of being under bombing. They were of course all volunteers as well - so why did they join up?