Not quite relevant to the B of B, so apologies, but a chum of mine ( even older than me ) was a child in London & terrified by V-1's, evacuated to Wales by request; he only put that personal ghost to rest when I photographed him making a rude gesture to the V-1 at Duxford in the 1990's !
My father and uncle - both ending up as BAe / Hawkers foremen/ managers, spent their late childhood just before volunteering spending their time in West Sussex cycling to B of B crashes - we still have Bf109 cannon shells etc in our garage, and a Bf109 exhaust manifold complete with a Spitfire .303 round lodged in it - dad observed the dogfight then got on his pushbike pronto to the site near Billingshurst, West Sussex.
As one may imagine, he also saw some horrible things - but it put him in 'good' stead for looking after Seafires & Hellcats at Salerno & the far east...