Despite lockdown, celebrations are planned across the country culminating in a doorstep sing-along to We'll Meet Again.
"But please allow us, your proud compatriots, to be the first to offer our gratitude, our heartfelt thanks and our solemn pledge: you will always be remembered."The prime minister added:"Our celebration of the anniversary of the victory might give the impression that Hitler's downfall was somehow inevitable. You know better.
The PM said those involved in the struggle to defeat Nazism were"quite simply the greatest generation of Britons who ever lived".Geoffrey Pulzer was a tank commander with the 29th Armoured Brigade, the 11th Armoured Division and took part in the D-Day landings on his 21st birthday."A mortar landed on our tank. We came out with our ears drumming, blackened faces and pretty shaken," he told Sky News.
Seventy-five years ago, thousands took to the streets of London in spontaneous celebrations and pressed into the Mall to see the Royal Family and then prime minister Winston Churchill on the famous Buckingham Palace balcony. "On VE Day there was delirium, euphoria - you name it, it was there. Everywhere was the same. People singing, shouting, smiling, laughing, kissing, and hugging and it was all totally indiscriminate but great fun."The events will be led by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall who will pay hushed respects from a location in Scotland.
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