British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has paid tribute to surviving veterans of the multinational World War II campaign against Japan that ended 75 years ago.
FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, July 28, 2020, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks in Beeston near Nottingham, England. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has paid tribute to surviving veterans of the multinational campaign against Japan in World War II, which ended 75 years ago, noting the veterans courage during the six-year campaign that cost the lives of some 50,000 troops.
In an open V-J Day anniversary letter released Saturday and addressed to “Veterans of the Far East Campaign,” Johnson hailed the courage of those who fought in Asia and the Pacific. The six-year campaign cost the lives of some 50,000 British and Commonwealth troops, nearly half of whom perished in brutal prison camps.
Johnson acknowledged their war-time experiences had been “overshadowed in popular imagination by the conflict in Europe,” but he stressed that their service had brought World War II to an end and inaugurated a period of peace and prosperity across southeast Asia that remains intact to this day.
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