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"I thought I was finished" - how a Sedgefield centenarian came face to face with the enemy


“ON August 12, we saw a notice on a tree – “Bomb dropped on Japan”. Later a second one, in the Indian camp on August 14. Shots went up. The war was over,” said Les Butler, who celebrated his 100th birthday this week in Sedgefield.
He was out in Burma in 1945 as the news broke of nuclear bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and then the Japanese – his enemy – surrendering.
“But at home, the war had been over for three months and I had a daughter 14 months old,” he said. “Yet I had to stick it out until September 1946, waiting for my embarkation number to come up. It didn’t feel fair, somehow.” ....

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