It is the noise that Betty Webb remembers most about being in America at the end of the Second World War. “I had never heard such a racket,” she says. “Half of Washington had fixed their car horns and they stayed on for 24 hours. The cacophony was something else.”
The day marked the end of the small role she had played in defeating Japan, which she has recounted 75 years later.
Mrs Webb, now 97, or Staff Sergeant Vine-Stevens as she was, had been posted to the Pentagon in May 1945 on secondment from Bletchley Park, where she had been working for four years, since leaving a course in domestic science because she wanted to do more for the war effort than bake.
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