LIVING WITH KILLING WORLD WAR II US BOMBER CREWS.

The experiences of World War II bomber crews indicate that, unlike some scholars have theorized, distance from targets did not lessen the combat and other trauma resulting from prosecuting targets in the European theater. An analysis of Dave Grossman’s five factors of the likelihood of killing finds these air combat crews experienced significant psychological trauma, including moral injury, in the execution of their missions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]