VE Day news

Warrant Officer Jack Watson will mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day quietly, remembering his comrades and the 'band of brothers' who saw him through 77 operations…

Jack Lyon was shot down in a raid on Dusseldorf in June 1941 and spent almost four years as a PoW.

While Britons flooded into the streets to celebrate the end of war in Europe, the crews of Bomber Command remained cautious.

Ten days before VE Day was officially announced on 8 May 1945, 22-year-old Eric Reedman was stationed in Brussels with 80 Wing.

Typhoon fighter pilot Derek Lovell received the best present of all on 5 May 1945, when Germany announced its surrender to the Allied forces on his 23rd birthday.