Nantwich paid tribute to the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) with a moving ceremony held beside the War Memorial on the Town Square, writes Jonathan White.
VJ Day marks Japan’s surrender in 1945, bringing the Second World War to an end.
Nantwich is to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day next Friday August 15.
VJ 80 Day will be commemorated as it signifies the real end of the Second World War after Japan’s surrender on August 15, 1945.
By Jonathan White
Nantwich will hold its annual commemoration this weekend of the Second World War airman who gave his life to the town.
Lieutenant Arthur Brown was the heroic United States Army Air Force pilot who steered his out of control warplane away from the town.
A Nantwich war veteran was given a special 95th birthday surprise – by being awarded the Legion d’honneur by France!
Ronald Wilson was presented with France’s highest honour for people involved in the liberation of France from the Nazis in the Second World War.
Villagers in Minshull Vernon near Nantwich will honour 22 servicemen who were killed in plane crashes during Second World War.
The men’s names were never added to the war memorial in the village – and now parish councillors are to finally rectify that.
Organisers of VE Day celebrations in Nantwich have unveiled plans to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe.
Commemorations will begin at 12.30pm on Friday May 8 in Nantwich town centre, opening with Redshift Radio and music from the era.
The flags and bunting are out in Nantwich town centre as preparations gather pace to mark the 70th anniversary of VE Day.
May 8 will mark the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945.
Wartime show “We’ll Meet Again” which commemorates 70 years since the end of Second World War, is to have a special showing at Crewe Lyceum Theatre.
Duggie Chapman MBE is behind the new Wartime Cavalcade show, which is on at the Lyceum on April 13.
Antiques and personal mementos of one of the great unsung heroes of the Second World War are to be sold at a Nantwich auction. Possessions of Cheshire-born General Sir Miles Dempsey will be go under the hammer at art and antiques auctioneers Peter Wilson.
Nantwich students took time out to join war veterans selling poppies at a town supermarket. They bought poppies and spent time with the Royal British Legion representatives at Sainsbury’s on Middlewich Road where they had called in for lunch.
A woman has appealed for help to trace her half-sister from Nantwich that she has never met in 70 years. Diane Goodenough is keen to find out if her dad (pictured) Wilfred Ratcliffe’s daughter from a first marriage is still alive in South Cheshire.
A medal awarded to a Royal Marine who fought in the famous Battle of Trafalgar, could sell for £16,000 at a Nantwich auction. The Naval General Service Medal 1793 -1840, awarded to Thomas Durnell, goes under the hammer at Peter Wilson on Market Street.
A piece of a Second World War fighter plane which crashed into the River Weaver, is to be sold at auction in Nantwich. The iconic piece of wreckage is from the US plane which crash-landed close to houses on Shrewbridge Road.
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