'There was a group of airmen who we talked to, and I got a kiss from each of them'

'There was a group of airmen who we talked to, and I got a kiss from each of them'

Add VE Day 80 to your watchlist It’s a day familiar from black-and-white newsreel footage. After almost six years of war, crowds celebrated VE Day on the streets of London, stretching from outside Buckingham Place to Whitehall and Piccadilly Circus. Marjorie Hanson, then aged 22, was in the women’s branch of the British Army and remembers joining the rejoicing throng in Trafalgar Square. “My mum said, ‘Let’s go up to London!’ So we took the trai…