John Shannon: 'I did things in the war I still can't talk about'

John Shannon remembers his wartime activities in great detail.

He was a school-teacher and spent the first month of the war taking a group of his pupils to their evacuation homes in Dorset.

Then he joined the Navy before being sent on secret missions, including one involving anthrax.

He was 106 years old when he told us his story.

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