'The moment a Nazi U-boat met us to surrender' - vivid VE Day memories from veterans in the West Midlands and Shropshire
There weren't many British servicemen who were able to say they spent VE Day aboard a German U-boat. Roy Jones was one of them.
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For the Special Boat Service man, who lived in Porthywaen, near Oswestry, it was a particularly poignant experience, as he navigated the vessel safely to a harbour in Scotland. He found that, just like him, the enemy crew's main reaction was one of relief that the fighting was over.
Roy, who was 23 at the time, was serving aboard the destroyer HMS Ramsey in the North Sea. Once Germany's unconditional........
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