In WW2, did a British fighter pilot get away with wearing contact lenses?
Are you kidding? There were no contact lenses on WWII or even 20 years later. They only started becoming widespread after 1970.
I’m not kidding. And the idea of contact lenses dates from Leonardo da Vinci in 1508 and were first made in 1887. Cite.
I know of contacts by 1960.
Well, I didn’t find the fighter pilot, but this site notes that SOE agent Peter Churchill had “an accident in parachute training caused because he was not wearing his contact lenses” before his insertion into France in 1942. So contact lenses weren’t unavailable at the time.
Of course, the Brits had ace fighter pilot Sir Douglas “Tin Legs” Bader, who fought in the Battle of Britain despite being a double amputee.