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I would agree that most Australian recipients were pushed beyond their abilities to cope at the time of their action.
In the case of some that were pinned down by constant artillery barrages and machine gun fire they probably just had enough and couldn't stand anymore and charged headlong.

Some perhaps had such a sense of belonging to their fellow soldiers they could not cope with watching them get killed one by one so they took offensive action in the face of overwhelming enemy fire and were willing to risk their own lives to save those they were protecting.

Some, as soldiers are trained to do, followed their training with such a sense of duty that is beyond what most people would call sane.

Whether you call it insanity, sense of duty or whatever the fact remains that normal people under normal circumstances behave normally. Normal people faced with totally abnormal circumstances may well react completely different to what we would call normal.

Humans are a many minded creature and not at all as predictable as we may think.

Just my thoughts on the matter