VJ Day Portraits 2015 - Burma Veterans And Civilian Internees

CODICOTE, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 07: (EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: COMPOSITE IMAGE) In this composite image a comparison has been made between a handout photograph of WWII wireless operator Marsali Wood photographed aged 18 when she joined the war effort in 1944 (L) and one taken at her home, aged 89, on August 7, 2015 in Codicote, England. Marsali served in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) but behind the cover of the nursing yeomanry she was a Wireless Operator in India for the Force 136 Special Operations Executive (SOE) receiving coded messages from agents in occupied territory from 1944-1945. She was based in Calcutta on VJ Day and remembers that word spread very quickly when war was finally over, everyone was excited. Fifty wireless operators sailed back to the UK on RMS Mauretania, along with 6000 troops. The Royal British Legion will join the nation in commemorating the 70th anniversary of Victory over Japan (VJ) Day on Saturday 15 August and will be hosting veterans and their families at a reception after the national events in London. www.britishlegion.org.uk (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)