A fascinating biography, I Just Wanted to Fly by Bernard Osborn. He flew in the Sicily landings Where he was wounded, and on Market Garden. His description of being in the shrinking perimeter is disturbing. It’s on Amazon as a Kindle book, the man was a great writer as well as ridiculously brave.
One of my early instructors flew gliders on D Day and at Arnhem, he went on to be an Auster Pilot and stayed in the army to eventually fly the Scout before his retirement.
Men of their ilk seem to have been formed by their time and the events they lived through. I wonder if the “millennial generation” has such men within it.
SND