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15
Aug 2020
Three months and one week after the socially-distanced celebrations took place for the 75th anniversary of VE Day, Ripon marked VJ Day in more modest fashion.
Victory over Japan, which followed the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, brought an abrupt and brutal end to World War II and meant that British and Commonwealth troops, who fought in the Far East, could return home.
But tens of thousands of the 1.3 million men and women who made up the South East Area Command and what subsequently became known as the 'Forgotten Army' did not return to loved ones and their names can be found on War Memorials in the UK and around the world.
Today the 'Forgotten Army' will be remembered, across the UK, with a two minute silence; the sounding of church bells, a fly past of World War II aircraft and a national service of remembrance attended by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, broadcast live by the BBC.
Cllr Parkin, added:
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