Harlow, United Kingdom, May 1, 2025 (AFP) - UK WWII veteran remembers joy of war's end, 80 years on

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Centenarian Dorothea Barron recalled the wave of relief she felt when she heard World War II had finally come to an end. "Thank goodness that's over," the British Navy veteran remembers thinking. Eighty years on, the spritely 100-year-old -- who now teaches yoga and saw in her big birthday with a celebratory flight in a Spitfire fighter plane -- is among an ever-shrinking number of veterans with first-hand memories of the war. Exactly how many fo......

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