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unusual facts about VE Day



Radio 1212

He stayed on after VE Day and was hired by Stephen Williams to help him rebuild the English-language commercial service of Radio Luxembourg.


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132d Fighter Wing

On the continent, the group moved rapidly from one airfield to another, eventually winding up near Fritzlar, Germany (Y-86) on VE-Day.

Bedford Magazine Explosion

Not long after VE-Day, on the evening of Wednesday, July 18, a fire broke out on the jetty of the Bedford Magazine, now CFAD Bedford (Magazine Hill) on the Bedford Basin, north of Dartmouth.

David Common

In 2009, he was transferred to New York where he works as the CBC's Correspondent in that city, though he covered the 2010 Haiti earthquake, VE Day 65th anniversary celebrations in Holland, and continues to travel frequently.