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HertsAndEssexObserver published VJ Day: Burma Star veteran's memories of war in the Far East

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Burma Star veteran Harold Keating, who lives in Bishop's Stortford, was little more than skin and bone when he returned home at the end of the Second World War.It was 1945 and Harold, a member of the "forgotten army" serving in the Far East, recalls he was wearing a heavy coat and scarf when his ship docked at Liverpool on a bright and sunny day.The Japanese had surrendered bringing the bitter conflict in the Far East to an end. The war had waged on there for three months after victory...

VJ Day: Burma Star veteran's memories of war in the Far East


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