Psychiatric Consequences of WW2 Air Combat

Today’s Daily Dose short history film covers the psychiatric consequences of air combat during the Second World War.

Citations:

“…super toys…” Grinker, Men Under Stress, Kindle location 263

“…2.8% of all deaths…” Link, Medical Support; Army Air Forces in World War Two, p. 503

“…most likely victim of anoxia…” Miller, Masters of the Air, p. 94

“…revived spontaneously in the denser air…” Robinson, The Dangerous Sky, pp. 172-173

“…248 cases of combat aerial anoxia…” Link, Medical Support; Army Air Force in World War Two, p. 648

“In a survey of 839 airmen…” Ibid, p. 636

“…froze to their backs, buttocks and thighs…” Miller, Masters of the Air, p. 91

“…a temporary reprieve…” Ibid, p. 92

“…inflamed hands, feet and faces…” Ibid, p. 92

“Lanolin and other greases…” Robinson, The Dangerous Sky, pp. 178-179

“…inadequate indoctrination was virtually eliminated…” Link, Medical Support; Army Air Force in World War Two, pp. 638-639

“…25,577 total casualties…” Ibid., p. 516

“…140-pound ammunition box…” Miller, Masters of the Air, p. 92

“…2,958 cases…” Link, Medical Support; Army Air Force in World War Two, p. 505

“…two-thirds of all cases…” Miller, Masters of the Air, pp. 92-93

“…robbed us of character…” Cubbins, The War of the Cottontails, xi

“…a prisoner of this ship…” Miller, Masters of the Air, p. 14

“The navigator’s joy at being on the ground…” Bond, The Love and Fear of Flying, p. 10

“…acquaintanceships…” Ibid, p. 84

“Watching all this, men dying…” Taylor, Big Dogs, Nine Old Men, pp. 65-66

“…the more inward he became…” Ibid, p. 61

“…when they hit that killed them all…” Ball State University Library, Oral History Repository, Milton Reinke interview

“He was just a kid…” Ball State University Library, Oral History Repository, Charles Andrews interview

“…ratio of psychiatric distress…” Bond, The Love and Fear of Flying, pp. 126-127

“…seduced women…” Miller, Masters of the Air, p. 125

“…too many ‘Forts’ going down in flames…” Robinson, The Dangerous Skies, p. 184

“…screaming and yelling in his sleep…” Hastings, Psychiatric Experiences of the 8th Air Force, p. 291 “

Are you nervous in the service…” Grinker, Men Under Stress, Kindle locations 1015-1020

“…It happened two days ago…” Miller, Masters of the Air, p. 133

“…semi consciousness…” Ibid, p. 134

“…the only antidote I had…” Ibid, p. 106