Actually I didn't talk with this particular survivor personally ... he gave a talk to about 250 people and I listened along with the crowd.
About the different emotions and actions from the same guy, he said one guy screamed, started crying, ran away from his post, jumped into a trench and then got angry. He ran back to a machine gun emplacement, manned it and started shooting at the attackers! Now THAT guy had a lot of conflicting emotions in a short time, I'd suppose ...
After that talk, it was supposed to be time to fly, but it was raining hard. We left and went to Aircraft Spruce for some replacement tools that had been broken, and got back in time for the rain to stop but most people had already left. They cleaned the water out of the cockpits, cleaned the windshields and surfaces, and put the planes away. Pretty neat talk by 3 people including Dan King (The Last Zero Fighter author), but no flying ...