“Both of these men fought in the Pacific War and suffered from PTSD from the time they got home until they died.”
I’ve read that Isreali troops couldn’t deal with the sight of female casualties in combat; what kind of man could?
That is why today, although women are given arms and combat training in Israel IDF (and in the Russian Army and AF), they are NOT assigned to front line fighting units. The Russians learned this lesson in WW2 (1941-1945) and the Israelis learned it in their War for Independence (1948-1949).