P1b5 CJJFAX 125 Thu 17 Aug 19:11/32 WX 1/3 ] MEMORIES Maud Belfiild was a nurse in India and Burma specialising in tropical disjasjs She sbys: "Wj njvjr saw any fighting, but we saw plenty of the soldiers who had been involved in it." At the end of the war she treated former PoWs aboard a hospital ship. There were only 10 nursing staff but thousands of soldiers on board. Petty Officer K Costello's escort carrier HMS Speaker was used to transport home former PoWs. bNavz grub" and rum rations had most of them feeling better on their return. Home Front Diary VT Day PoliticsP1b5 CJKFAX 125a Thu 17 Aug 19:11/24 2/3 MEMORIES Richard Tbylor was serving in the RAF in a mountainous region on the Iraqi- Turkish border, and did not hear of the Allied victory until after VJ Day. "Wj had an old domestic radio from which we occasionally heard from a far- away radio station. "We did hear something or other about some sort of atomic affair but none of us seemed to take much notice," hj says K Yabsley heard of the atomic bombs and adds: "After so many high explosives had been dropped in the preceding six years it was difficult to comprehend what a nuclear explosion entailed.b Home Front Diary VT Day PoliticsP1b5 CJKFAX s6ua -hu 17 Aug 19:27/48 X 3/3 MEMORIES G Diane was a Roybl Navy telegraphist with the British Pacific Fleet which sailed into Tokyo harbour with the US Navy to take the Japanese surrender. Hi had heard of the atomic bombings of Japan with "quiet apprehension". "(hj full horror of the Nagasaki bomb was to be revealed some seven months later when I visited Nagasaki," hj says "Sometimes when I look at the photograph of myself and four colleagues standing among the rubble I think to myself should it have been? "I have my opinions, others have theirs Home Front Diary VJ Day Politics