Where was your parent on VE-Day?

[j.sabourn]

#4 The title being discussed, would have been more equitable if it had been VVD ,victory over venerable disease which has I believe still to be won. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

That John is one that may never be won as long as the 'girls' are around in some foreign placed where some unsuspecting male will go.

Getting your leg over at the time distorts the thinking process and the thought of catching some present is not there.

[Michael Black]

My mother was 16 at the time and was working in the co- op at the time, she told me the manager let them have a small celebration in the store room. My dad was still at sea so don't know his exact whereabouts, they had still to meet, my dad was still at sea when they did and he missed his last ship because of meeting her.
Regards Michael

[Des Jenkins]

John
Scientists have found out that once a man raises his leg over his brain freezes
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

There was a lad of six in the bath looking down on his male appendage.
Is that my brains he asked mum,
Not yet son but by the age of 16 they will be.

[Ralph Knowles]

My Dad was still in north Germany having walked out of a prison camp to the south of Hamburg. The camp guards had already fled in case the Ruskies continued westwards, faster than was reported. Dad was found by a forward rec group of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers and was taken to an airfield where he was processed and put on a Hamden Bomber for repatriation at half his fighting weight after five years in captivity. Due to his membership, pre-war, of the TA, he was deemed 'regular' and had to 'turn to' after only a month at home and join a munitions disposal team in Somerset and then back home in Scotland, dealing with explosives and gas which were loaded onto barges in Ardrosson and dumped at sea in Beauforts Dyke in the North Channel. Eventually demobbed Nov '45. I was born fourteen months later.

[Fred Saunders]

I was only 13 when the War ended, Mum was most likely tending my two then sisters, Dad being a farm worker and a protected industry was more than likely doing some sort of farm labourer work, I remember going in to our local town and joining the celebrations, age did not seem to worry us or our parents back then, we were safe.
Still had to wait for Uncles to come home from the Army and one from a P.O.W camp in Europe and one from Changi P.O.W camp.
Those were the days.
Fred Saunders

[happy daze john in oz]

Not so much VE day as the day I was born.
Mum told me that on that morning a bomb was dropped on the railway station, less then 1klm down the road.
Welcome to the world from Adolf one could say!!!!

[j.sabourn]

My mother used to go on in later years about a messersphit chasing her down Richmond Park road firing his guns at her we used to think it was a joke as couldn’t
verify it because it was lunch time and we were sitting in the school shelter waiting for the all clear siren However years later I was down at the house and my
Uncle showed me the bullet holes around the front door. The aircraft was probably more interested in getting rid of his weight
for his return back across the channel as they were strictly limited on tank capacity and even had extra tanks fitted which were jettisoned after being emptied.
Another headache for those on the ground. JS