Keep in mind that in the Second World War some fuzz faced men of 18 and 19 matured so very rapidly after their experience of aerial combat or flying the big bombers at night over enemy territory.
VH-XXX'S comment about relative ease may well have been taken the wrong way here. It is none the less a valid comparison, not, as XXX pointed out, detracting one iota from recognition of the initiative needed tackling aspects of the dreaded practique in some countries when you fly in and fly out, other than by way of international carriers . (Speaking as one who has been there, done that.)
XXX – That would be the most myopic post I have seen on this site.
. .. . . well old friendly ghost, you can't have read too many then.
Thinks . . .. . . a book of selected posts. . . put together by a myope.
Titled MY OPTIC VIEWS. A LONG-SIGHTED PERSPECTIVE
Full of quaint obscurities, no doubt. (Which is not an invitation for any impertinent person to suggest one may have been inhaling. Or imbibing the mountain tay, or the mountain dew, thank yew!)