Gentlemen,
Thank you both for your response to my question. What triggered the question was my own memory of joining the RAF as a Halton apprentice in 1969. I had never been away from home for more than one night, and suddenly, well, you know what I mean. Now that was 1969, and personal comms had hardly improved by GW1, when home news was sparse at best. My thoughts went to how those in training in the early war years, prior to US involvement, might well have been given a sanitised version of what was happening back home. In an era where we are bombarded with sensationalism disguised as fact, my interest is if the feedback you chaps had was nuanced one way or another. Also of course, the fact that the potential was there.
Smudge
