I'm incredibly impressed by the modesty of those Few who have appeared in TV
interviews this week (including the Douglas Bader 1965 interview) and their deference to "the many" who enabled them to do their job. Thoroughly level-headed and in no need of celebrity. Rare qualities these days.
Likewise the awesome awesome ATA pilots. To have flown 75-80 types without nav aids, radios, often flying multi-engined aircraft alone, and in respect of the women, to often look delicious with it - these people are as if giants from a mythological age. My jaw hangs open. They have my abiding respect.