Secret hero.

Bexhill Observer (Bexhill, England) | April 30, 2008 | Copyright

He is the only survivor of a secret war mission that happened more than 60 years ago.

Geoffrey Armstrong was just 19 years old when he led an expedition to Norway to deliver home two members of the royal family.

He swore an oath not to tell anyone about the voyage from the Moray Firth in Scotland to Bergen - not even his own family.

Geoffrey is 84 now and pleased after all this time that the truth has come out - his memoirs have been placed in the Royal Navy Museum in Portsmouth.

"I am happy about it - it is the full story as accepted by ...

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