💨 Abstract
On VJ Day, 80 years ago, Bill Jones, then 14, remembers Japan's surrender. While the UK celebrated, Bill, an engineer in the Navy, was in the Pacific. He witnessed the horrors of war, including the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and later, the liberation of emaciated POWs. For Bill, VJ Day is a tribute to those who never returned home.
Courtesy: Luke Alsford
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