Pretty much. You watch any film from the WW-II era and only artillery crews wore any sort of hearing protection (cotton wads stuffed in their ears). But many

Pretty much. You watch any film from the WW-II era and only artillery crews wore any sort of hearing protection (cotton wads stuffed in their ears). But many of them gave up doing even that after a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMytPAKQyU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMytPAKQyU Dad had significant hearing loss from his time in the infantry during the war.