Memories of a 91 year old Burma veteran ahead of this weekend's anniversary of VJ Day

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Tom Harrison from Hale served in Burma during World War 2. He told BBC Radio Manchester's Phil Trow that the troops were unaware that the atom bomb had been dropped.

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