'It was ghastly as a young person watching death - but I had a job to do, to get out and maintain my aircraft to make sure they'd fly safely.'
With every passing year, fewer of the men and women who helped defeat Nazi Germany and liberate Europe remain alive to share their stories. Before Remembrance Sunday - when the service and sacrifice of those who defended the country's freedom is commemorated - BBC News's Allan Little spoke to three veterans.
Neil is one of the last surviving members of the generation whose youth was defined by World War Two.Christian Lamb is one of the last surviving Wren officers to have served throughout World War Two She worked as a plotter in a map room, tracking the progress of the North Atlantic shipping convoys as they tried to evade U-boat attacks."Half a dozen of us went down to have a drink on board - and there I met John Lamb, my future husband," Christian says.But when Lt Lamb's ship left Belfast to join a convoy, Christian wondered whether she would ever see her fiance again.
"We knew what was happening to Jewish people under the Nazis - that was a big part of why I wanted to join up," he says.
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