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VJ Day: Royals Lead Commemorations As UK Marks 75th Anniversary

Second World War veterans also attended the ceremony at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

Cover image: People celebrate VJ Day in 1945 on Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace (Picture: EMPICS Archive/PA).

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Cover image: Richard Edser experienced multiple kamikaze attacks by the Japanese during the war (Picture: Dick Goodwin/ The Taxi Charity).

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Cover image: The Red Arrows fly over the London Eye for the 75th anniversary of VE Day in May (Picture: Red Arrows).

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Lance Sergeant Andy Skelton will remember his grandfather's escape from a POW camp when his group performs for Burma Star Veterans at the Royal Hospital Chelsea this Saturday.

Cover image: Both the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall are taking part in the commemorations (Picture: PA).

Royals To Lead VJ Day 75 Commemorations

A schoolgirl hangs an origami crane from a maple tree at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.

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Mordaunt Cohen was in Burma as part of an anti-aircraft unit defending RAF air strips

VJ Day: The Burma Veteran

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VJ Day: Remembering the war in Asia and how Britain and its allies fought back

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VJ Day: The India Veteran

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VJ Day: The Hell Ship Survivor

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VJ Day: Veteran talks of his experience of fighting with the British Pacific Fleet

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