“We’re in a war, a shooting war. We’ve got to fight. And some of us have got to die. I’m not trying to tell you not to be afraid. Fear is normal. But stop worrying about it and about yourselves. Stop making plans. Forget about going home. Consider yourselves already dead. Once you accept that idea, it won’t be so tough.” Gregory Peck in “Twelve O’clock High”
USAAF bomber crews over Europe experienced a higher casualty rate than ANY other group of fighting men in WWII.