Just curious, did your brother fly much after the war? Flying is probably more fun without the Luftwaffe trying to kill you.
My father was a B-24 pilot in the 15th Air Force. He never flew after the war, except as a commercial passenger. At one family dinner we asked him why he didn’t continue with aviation. His reply was “I didn’t think the airplane would ever amount to much”.
My Dad the Visionary. He died in 2001 at 80.
LOL... He came home got married, had kids and worked to support them like most of the other Vets. He worked for a fuel distributor in a small FResno county town eventually buying the company and going broke. I had another brother and one sister serve plus 2 brothers-in-law. One BiL did own a Areonica(sp) in the late 40s and he was a Navy gunners mate in many south pacific battles. He died of alcoholism in his 50s...