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Gunner Cyril Smith and his fellow PoWs
"went mad, clapping, cheering, shouting
and dancing," when they heard that the
war was over.
"No longer did I hate the Japanese
guard, no longer did I feel the
pain from the sores and blisters
and the flies that were at the
ulcer on my leg," he recalls.
But PoW Hurricane pilot Terence Kelly
remembers a sense of anti-climax.
"It was an evening exactly like 1,000
others: the same thin faces, the same
apology for a meal, the same hunger
when it had been eaten," he says.
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