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Old 19-06-20, 08:22
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Default Dane Vera Lynn - The Forces' Sweetheart

Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces' Sweetheart whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, has died on 18 June, aged 103.

BBC News have looked back at her incredible life.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53091856

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Default Dame Vera Lynn

I was most fortunate to meet her and get an autograph during the 1984 40th Anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France. BBC Breakfast TV was broadcasting live from the waterfront at Arrowmanches-les-Bains and requested to have several Commonwealth re-enactors with her as she sang some of her iconic wartime songs. I was one of those re-enactors and managed to take this photograph of her during the melee following the performance.

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