| |  | | Bernard driving a jeep, Japan |
| |  | | Guns at Kure docks, Japan |
| |  | | Bernard (left) with pianist, Marcel Lorber |
| |  | | Church, Hiroshima after the atom bomb |
| |  | | Entertaining the troops: Bernard is on the right |
| |  | | Motorbiking in Japan: Bernard is second from left |
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Bernard's war
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Bernard Keefe spent his youthful days at the top secret wartime HQ, Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes. Bernard was 19-years-old and about to go up to Cambridge to study classics when he was selected to go on a six month crash course to learn Japanese and become a decoder at Bletchley. But several months after the atom bomb had been dropped, Bernard was sent to Japan...
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