Britain remembers VE Day spirit 80 years on
Clutching a Union Jack, Maureen Shroll, innocently captured the mood of millions of Britons on VE Day 80 years ago today. Dressed in over-sized dungarees, the youngster was playing near her home by the rubble of bombed-out houses in Battersea, south London, on May 8, 1945, as the nation poured onto the streets to savour freedom. A series of shots taken by a now-unknown American photographer has since become iconic images of the end of war in Europe.
