Canadian Forces

After a combat mission

Canadian pilots from 417 Fighter Squadron, at this time equipped with Spitfire, after a mission with the Desert Air Force, Libya, 21 February 1943. This picture weigh more than any debate around the combat stress in this specific case linked to flight stress. Watch the pilot in foreground: is a young man, but reveal more ages, its gaze seem lose in the empty, while its comrade in background with the head in the hands is completely collapsed. The combat stress, although investigated by many years, the first studies around this occurrence date back to American Civil War, is a science quite new and today, after the turn of the Vietnam War, contextualized inside the studies around the PTSD-Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Victor Sierra