L.M.F.

If a soldier today is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, he or she gets counselling and therapy and treatment. In World War II, it was a different story. Bomber crews were especially horribly treated, in a system that used threats and psychological bullying to make the airmen - many of them not yet twenty years old - climb the ladder again and again to do their almost impossibly dangerous job.

At twenty years old, with twenty-seven missions as a Lancaster bomber pilot under his ...