When I was a kid in the 80s, when ever I heard anything that sounded like a jet, I would think we were being nuked. I was scared out of my mind about nuclear war.
I listened to a flyover this year of WWII planes in tribute to the 75th anniversary of victory in Europe.
You could hear them approaching from the distance (props) and there were upwards of a dozen of them.
This wasn’t at an airfield, this was over a city.
now figure what it was like in WWII in England or France as planes (with bombs) are flying overhead for a raid.