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Ruth Bourne: 'VE Day was crazy - people were hanging off lampposts'

Ruth Bourne's job during World War Two was so secret that even her parents didn't know what she did.

It was only many decades after the war finished that she could reveal how she helped to break the German Enigma code.

"We had to sign the Official Secrets Act," she said.

But after years of deciphering Nazi codes, Britain celebrated VE Day on 8 May 1945 - and Ruth was in London to in the party atmosphere.

We Were There aims to collect as many first-hand accounts as possible by 2025, the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, to preserve veterans' accounts for future generations.

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