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Sunday Firesides: Control = Courage

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Kate McKay
Dec 19, 2024
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Pilot in a Cockpit.

During both World Wars, Lord Moran, a physician who served as a medical officer during the first and Winston Churchill’s personal doctor during the second, studied the nature of courage. One of the interesting observations he made was that aboard military aircraft, the navigator experienced greater nerves than the pilot.

The reason for this, Moran surmis…

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