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With every passing year, fewer of the men and women who helped defeat Nazi Germany and liberate Europe remain alive to share their stories. Before Remembrance Sunday - when the service and sacrifice of those who defended the country's freedom is commemorated - BBC News's Allan Little spoke to three veterans.In 1943, an advert in
he was one of thousands of west indians who volunteered. neil flanigan grew up injamaica. he joined the raf and sailed to britain to work in aircraft maintenance. people from the empire and the commonwealth died. many of my colleagues who volunteered to be aircrew died as rear gunners and as engineers during the war. we had no choice but to accept death as a part of the way of life. christian lambjoined the women s royal naval service. she worked in signals keeping track of north atlantic shipping convoys. she was plotting the progress of her fiance s ship when it was attacked by german u boats. i knew that they were in this, involved in this terrible battle. and i had thought, having just managed to catch hold of this man, i m now going to let him go. of course, it was terrible anxiety, but i couldn t possibly leave the scene. it was a matter of complete