How did you know the war was over?

John: Well, a wee birdie told us it was over, Actually I can’t remember exactly how we knew but we were told it was a big day for us when we were told as a t the time I was working as an Instructor instructing young Flight Engineers coming through , and we got word that the war had ended so of course we just stopped , everything stopped, and we went to the town , Nottingham, on VE Day a lot of the people got drunk and had a good time round the square in Nottingham. On VJ Day it was more or less the same we carried on as normal from VE to VJDay the end of the Japanese war, it was party after party. After VJ Day, I had another year or so in the air force until your time was up so we always had plenty to do.

Sarah: Well I’ll tell you exactly how I heard I can remember as if it was yesterday what I was doing at that particular moment. I was driving my ambulance during the day, I was standing by, we had to be there with our Ambulance and if anything happened you were called upon to do what ever duty it was. From the house we were billeted at we went to Cameron Barracks to standby with our Ambulance what I was ding that day I was driving my ambulance out to Cameron Barracks I would have a medic with me and I was going up this road and I noticed the flag was flying at full mast and I literally shouted, look the war’s over the flag is flying and that was terrific and that night we went into the town Inverness, and danced that night away. Dancing was our past time we danced way into the early hours, and it was great fun.