Originally Posted by
Herod
Modern hindsight, yes, but remember these people had lived through a war very recently. The ethos back then was "just get on with it".
Yes absolutely, the war had only ended seven years before, equivalent to us looking back on events in 2015. Also many of those flying would have had service careers & almost certainly lost colleagues. John Derry was, of course, a Squadron Leader. Not directly related but it should be remembered Geoffrey de Havilland had lost two sons to flying accidents & then went on to then endure the trauma of the loss of the Comets 1s, with sadly considerable loss of life. The loss of two sons destroyed his first wife.