aincentaviator62,
Very true, although it made sense in the three months before the Bomb, when it looked as if it would have to be "all hands to the pumps" for everyone against Japan for the foreseeable future, irrespective of whether they'd done their bit in Europe or Burma already.
Did your chaps fly the Daks out to India ? If so, they were at risk of having them "repossessed" by the US after VJ Day, as they would almost certainly have been Lend-Lease aircraft. Then they would have been orphans in the same way as the shipboard people.
Put simply, the Bomb caught everyone napping, and all decisions had to be made "off the cuff",
Danny.