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This story was submitted to the People's War Site by a pupil at Esher High School on behalf of Eric and Margaret Williams and has been added to the site with their permission.
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Margaret Williams, as a Fleet Street reporter on the Sunday Dispatch, went to Berlin in 1946 with the first batch of British Army wives to rejoin their husbands serving in Germany.
She saw at first-hand the devastation of Berlin and visited Hitler's bunker and the Chancellery and the Brandenburg Gate.
Eric Williams went to sea in March, 1941, from a newspaper at Northampton, did three round-the-world voyages on a troop carrier, bringing back food, and then was torpedoed in the North Atlantic on Ocober 22, 1942.
He was rescued, landed in Newfoundland and returned to Britain to join the Royal Navy.
He served in a minelayer, escort carrier, landing ship dock and was then appointed to Admiralty as an Official Naval Reporter.
As such he was the only witness of the main U-boat surrender at Loch Eriboll, north-west Scotland on May 12,1945.
He took passage on U-293 from Scotland to Northern Ireland, spending most of time in argument with a Nazi Commandant.
He returned to civilian life in August, 1946.

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