The Big Show (1951)

Fighter pilot...
"War, for us, was not the desperate charge of a
thousand human beings, sweating with fear, sup-
porting and sustaining each other in a helpless
anonymous massacre. For us, it was a deliberate,
individual act, a conscious, scientific sacrifice. Un-
aided, alone, each of us had every day to conquer
the stab of fear in his breast, to preserve, re-form,
his ebbing store of will power. Three times a day,
for months on end, into the flack, missing death by
a hair's breadth each time, until the last.
What merely human nerves could go on standing
up to this?"