A huge security operation is underway as the Queen is set to lead events to mark the 70th anniversary of VJ Day despite fears the event may be targeted by ISIS extremists.
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It is now considered among the worst atrocities of the Second World War, but many of those who endured it have complained of feeling forgotten; that their suffering was eclipsed by the horrors of Auschwitz and the gas chambers.
But the Metropolitan Police have urged people to continue their plans as normal today whole remaining “vigilant and alert”.
Security for today’s celebrations will be as tight as always after Sky News reported earlier this week on a possible threat.
The monarch and other members of the royal family will commemorate the event at a church service Saturday and a wreath laying ceremony.
Meanwhile the Prince of Wale and Duchess of Cornwall will attend the Horse Guards Parade the place there might be a fly-past of WW2 plane. The fly-past will include a Swordfish, a Dakota and Hurricane, together with an RAF Typhoon, report the Telegraph.
It wasn’t until two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the Japanese surrendered on August 15 of that year.
Japan formally surrendered to Allied forces on September 2, 1945, at a ceremony in Tokyo Bay aboard USS Missouri, after which the country was occupied by US troops.
The Royal British Legion will be hosting a reception in the grounds of the Abbey thereafter.
“And for many people in the nation it was the end of the war, but in actual fact for all of the men still in the Far East in captivity, many of them didn’t even know that the war had ended and they didn’t start returning home until three or four months later”.
The service will embrace veterans, their households, and present members of the Armed Forces.
She will attend a remembrance service at St Martin’s in the Field church in London alongside the prime minister and Duke of Edinburgh.
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Prime Minister David Cameron told the BBC it was important to “honour the memory of those that died, the thousands that died, serving our country, preserving our freedoms”. I’m going to be laying a wreath with a 97-year-old hero from those times.
