Seem to recall several of the RFC aces mentioning parachutes.Mannock was venomous that they did'nt have them,
Ira Jones recordered this,Mick was his hero.Would he have written it if chutes were thought "sissy" by British pilots? What does stand out is that most of them are at the point where they had seen an awful lot of death.Maybe even Mannock felt the hand on his shoulder.