I think you hit the nail about midway. We civilians just need a bad guy and good guy with a short narrative hinging on one moment to make it memorable. Only question is "pilot fatigue" exists but how is it different that the German pilots who also could largely only get home in a box? We're the German pilots losing effectiveness? Maybe the fact that Germans got home for a week or two and weren't as isolated kept them going? I'm thinking they didn't lose that much effectiveness as pilots. I think there are a lot of cultural parallels between the militaries Germany and Japan in the 1940s. They both had an absolute need to win quick and maintain a culture of willpower and destiny vs reality in their troops. Both military cultures performed exceptionally in the beginning and both had to be utterly smashed displaying little or no willingness to negotiate.
I think you hit the nail about midway. We civilians just need a bad guy and good guy with a short narrative hinging on one moment to make it memorable.
Only question is "pilot fatigue" exists but how is it different that the German pilots who also could largely only get home in a box? We're the German pilots losing effectiveness? Maybe the fact that Germans got home for a week or two and weren't as isolated kept them going? I'm thinking they didn't lose that much effectiveness as pilots.
I think there are a lot of cultural parallels between the militaries Germany and Japan in the 1940s. They both had an absolute need to win quick and maintain a culture of willpower and destiny vs reality in their troops. Both military cultures performed exceptionally in the beginning and both had to be utterly smashed displaying little or no willingness to negotiate.
"AH"!? No; AF. This is like a bad history book club.