VE Day 1945 - What were your family doing?

[KateR]

Thought I'd share a few pictures which I thought brought home some of the thinking and maybe some we forget these days.

[KateR]

a few more Morphed pictures I liked

[ClaretTony]

Just spoke to mi Dad, he was 19 on VE Day and was waiting for his Home Guard uniform at the time as he had a medical which meant his asthma kept him out of the armed forces, i have no doubt that he would have been the Sgt Wilson of the Kelbrook home guard.

He's still there now.

Better than being a stupid boy

[Hipper]

My father was in the RAF and flew with Bomber Command as a bomb aimer. At the end of the war he was instructing with the Heavy Conversion Unit 1652 at Marston Moor, Yorkshire. They were training crew on Halifaxes but as the war in Europe ended 1652 was closed down. Lancasters were going to be used in the Far East and Halifaxes were no longer needed.

My mother was in the western part of Holland, almost starving as they were cut off as the allies bypassed them to move quickly onto Germany. The RAF and USAAF with agreement from the Germans, flew food sorties - Operation Manna:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation ... _Chowhound

[IanMcL]

Polesworth - that was the worst situation in the world for your dad. Survival was a miracle.

I read a book, 'The Forgotten Highlander', which describes living through this time and doing all the things your dad did. The effect was for life. Well worth a read. It will reveal much about the inner strength of your dad.

Hats off to them all.