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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.

When the Pacific islands of Vanuatu were devastated by Cyclone Pam, the international community rallied to help.

The operation to keep the inhabitants of Sarajevo alive during civil war in the early 1990s remains the longest running airlift in the RAF's history.