Fascinating
I started this thread out of general interest having stumbled across a 1982 "This Is Your Life" Douglas Bader broadcast on YouTube - little realising where the thread would go.
I have found many of the subsequent comments to be educational, and they have opened my mind to aspects about Bader and others of that era of which I was unaware.
Thanks to those who have made this a fascinating thread for me to follow - and, hopefully, others too.