Veteran recalls war's end

80 YEARS ON: NEWS CAME AS 'TREMENDOUS WEIGHT OFF YOUR SHOULDERS'

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Centenarian Dorothea Barron recalled the wave of relief she felt when she heard World War II had finally come to an end. "Thank goodness that's over," the British Navy veteran remembers thinking.

Eighty years on, the spritely 100-year-old—who now teaches yoga and celebrated her birthday with a celebratory flight in a Spitfire fighter plane—is among an ever-shrinking number of veterans with first-hand memories of the war.

Exactly how many former WWII servicepeople there are in the UK is unknown.