FOX reporter reenacts famous VJ Day kiss

The paper’s front page of August 15, 1945, carried the headline “Japan: Unconditional Surrender” and reported that the newly elected Labour Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, had broken the news of victory in a midnight radio address.

Cllr Emerson will join former Far East prisoner of war Len Gibson in laying a wreath.

They married in 1954 and moved to Vinters Avenue in Stevenage after the birth of their first son, Colin, a year later.

After Kathleen’s death in 2009 at the age of 78, Michael moved to Four Acres and stayed there until the onset of dementia.

The data also includes data about the Marco Polo bridge incident of July 7, 1937, which led to the breakout of the Sino-Japan war, as well as correspondence between defector Wang Chao-ming and his defecting group, while the archive also has about 230,000 photos depicting the history between 1908 and the 1970s.

“He saw a lot of his comrades killed, including his best friend”.

Bishop to the Armed Forces Nigel Stock, whose uncle was a prisoner of war, delivered the sermon, saying, “we remember as we need to be reminded of what the human spirit can achieve”. One of the most frightening thing was the jungle.

It includes the decisions made by the late president on the war and letters written by him in person and his directives during the war, Chen said.

“We were stunned when he did tell us some of the things he went through and saw”.

“I feel sad that this is the last service”.

The poem was set to music and became a favourite marching tune for many in the 14th Army in Burma, now known as Myanmar.

“If we didn’t work hard they’d beat us with sticks”.

In Japan, Mr Abe expressed “profound grief” at his country’s actions in WW2, but he faced criticism from South Korea and China who said Japan had failed to properly atone for its actions.

The Burma campaign was one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Second World War and resulted in more than 71,000 British and Commonwealth casualties. We were fighting men who were prepared to die but you don’t want to die.

“I’ve had people telling me their uncle Joe was there and this, that and the other but in general there is a huge level of ignorance here”.

“There’s a big misconception that most from this area fought in Europe when many here got shipped out to Singapore”. There was a home-coming service in the old Town Hall.

David Cameron said it was important to “honour the memory of those that died”.

Church In Wales officials said today was the last time the local group would hold its annual service at St John’s Church in Cardiff before calling it a day.

The service at St Martin-in-the-Fields was a poignant commemoration of those who died in the war against Japan.