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This story was submitted to the People’s War Site by Three Counties Action, on behalf of Joan Tyler, and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

Having been seconded for a period to an area outside London, on VE Night I had to travel overnight to my battery outside Sunderland.
In a blacked out train we passed through many small towns and villages — seeing the bonfires, bright red, orange and yellow — a sight not seen for many years.

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