VE Day veteran recalls bumping into his father during Normandy invasion
He recalls how the Battle of Britain pilot and senior officer Johnnie Johnson, who he referred to as 'Cowboy Johnson' for his recognisable two six-gun revolvers at his waist, burst into the cinema shouting: 'I've just come to tell you that the war has finished.'
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