I have worked for BEA & BA for over thirty years & watched the flight crew,s change from WW II professionals to just ordinary workers out to get all they can screw out of management
Oh dear, I think J Don has been taking a walk down Alzheimers Lane again. Lets say he's been working at BA for 30 years, that would be a date of joining of 1976 ish. Given that WW2 ended in 1945, assuming an 18 year old WW2 pilot in 1945 went straight into BAs predecessors on VE day he'd be 48 when Don joined BA, with a retirement age in those days of 50. Even if Dons been working at BA for much longer than 30 years, the chances of him coming into professional contact with a significant number of ex-WW2 pilots seem pretty slim. Still, nostalgias not what it used to be and the retired skippers I know certainly don't speak of the small number of veterans they flew with with anything like the reverence JD does!