VJ day anniversary - Ex-soldier talks
- Title
- VJ day anniversary - Ex-soldier talks
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 19 Aug 1995
- Year of production
- 1995
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- Duration
- 00:00:22
- Description
- Twenty thousand veterans gathered for a service of remembrance outside Buckingham Palace as part of commemoration events for 50th anniversary of VJ Day. A Lancaster Bomber flew over the mall and dropped a million poppies. Charles Haughey, a Sergeant Major serving in Burma, was among the crowd, and says they tried not to get taken prisoner.
- Contributors
- Charles Haughey (war veteran)
- Keywords
- London; Anniversary celebrations; Second World War (1939-1945); Japan; Prisoners of War; Reminiscence; VJ Day; Commemorative events; Anniversaries; Veterans (Armed Forces)
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