'I gave them news from home about a baby being born to Sgt. They thought I was one of them, on their social level and they could relate to me,' Lynn said. 'I was very similar to their sisters and their girlfriends. Lynn called herself an 'unsophisticated' young lady from the East End - and the perfect messenger to connect with soldiers on the front. She voiced a BBC radio show during the war, 'Sincerely Yours' on Sunday nights when she'd sing songs and read letters from servicemen. 'It soon became apparent that entertainment was going to be a necessity a weapon against. She soon found herself performing at every base and hospital around the British Isles and beyond. 'As we look to the white cliffs on Monday, I will be thinking of all our brave boys - the cliffs were the last thing they saw before heading off to war and, for those fortunate enough to return, the first thing they saw upon returning home,' Lynn said just ahead of her 100th birthday in March 2017. When Lynn turned 100, a 350-foot-tall image of her face was projected onto Cliffs of Dover in honor of that song and the powerful symbolism of that British landmark.

'We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return,' the queen said. Queen Elizabeth II seemed to give a nod to Lynn on April 5, as she addressed the nation at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. That's enough for me.'Īnd even in 2020, those words - 'We'll Meet Again' - seemed just as poignant. 'Don't know know where, don't know when, but it will happen. 'The song will bring tears to your eyes,' Langan wrote in 2019. 'It wasn't just important that it had to be a song that I liked and thought I could sing it well, but it had to mean something to those that were listening,' Lynn told the museum.

Lynn said she carefully picked the songs she performed during World War II, knowing the fans listening were either servicemen or loved ones of those in harm's way. And it gave them hope and it gave them courage to go on doing what they had to do at that time.' 'These were the songs that helped them to think of home, helped to go on fighting, that they were fighting for something that meant something to them and to everybody else and their loves ones and families. It said we will meet again, all this trouble will be over and we'll all be nice and happy and home back once more,' Lynn said in an interview with the Imperial War Museum in 1988. ''We'll Meet Again' had the words, it was optimistic. But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.'

The lyrics included the well-known lines: 'We'll meet again.

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