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NEWS EYE: New account of 9 May 1945 reveals secret confetti cannon

Previously unseen photos show that the British brought ashore a giant truck-mounted cannon that fired confetti over great swathes of St. Helier. Fearful of drowning in millions of red-and-white bits of paper, thousands of Germans emerged from their bunkers with hands aloft and white flags flying. Islanders gathered in the prophetically named Liberation Square back […]

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