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80th VJ Day service is poignant moment for veteran
A World War Two special forces veteran says a service to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day will be "a really poignant moment for those of us left". Charlie Richards, 104, from Kettering, Northamptonshire, is one of 33 Far East and Pacific war veterans attending the service at the National Memorial Arboretum.
A 100-year-old World War Two veteran said VJ Day did not seem to be of any "great consequence" at the time, even though he ...
MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On August 15, 1945, the world celebrated victory over Japan and the end of World War II after two atomic ...
The 80th anniversary of Victory Over Japan Day and the formal end of World War II marked by council. Whilst VE Day marked the ...
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ON VICTORY in Japan Day on August 15, a 100-year-old veteran from near Ellesmere Port has spoken of his memories of witnessing the end of the war.
This is the day when Fascism finally dies, as we always knew it would," he said. That said, Japan did not formally surrender until Sept. 2, 1945, which is also known as V-J Day.
Tommy Doherty, 98, served in the RAF in Singapore while neighbour Brian Buick's uncle died in a prisoner of war camp in Borneo in 1945.
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