My Dad would talk about the war a bit when I was young, like 8 or so. I was fascinated, and of course embued with movies about war.
I'm glad to have his stories. He had a friend who was flight lieutenant that my Dad greatly admired, he was one of the three who survived and kept the other two afloat as he was not badly injured. He later took an R&R flight to NA and the DC-3 was lost somewhere never seen again. His name was Isadore Lamica.