Memories: Tommies Street-Dancing, Bombay 1945
Friday, the 8th of May 2020, was the 75th anniversary of V-E Day, the day the Second World War ended in Europe. In 1945 I was a tot. We lived in Bombay on the third floor of a 5-storey building, eight tenants per floor.
On VE Day evening I was on the long common verandah in front. I watched in amazement as a group of Tommies (British soldiers) came out after drinking in Dadar Bar across the road and did a merry jig, dancing and yelling 'Thank God! It's all over! ' 'The war is over!' etc. That day, the 8th of May, 1945. the most major war and hopefully the war to end all wars, had ended in Europe.
But the war in the Pacific Theater did not end then. That happened after the first atom bombs were dropped in August 1945.
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