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Pictured centre is the second owner of the Bentley, from whose estate it is being offered for sale, Charles Philip Blackham.<br />
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Mr Blackham served with the RAF’s 1667 and 550 squadrons as a Flight Engineer and Pilot during World War Two.<br />
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A rust-bucket Bentley car that belonged to a war hero who bombed Adolf Hitler has sold for over £454,000.<br />
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The 1936 Bentley Vanden Plas tourer was bought by Charles Blackman seven years after the war.<br />
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Mr Blackham had been a Lancaster bomber pilot in the RAF and bombed Hitler's 'Eagles Nest' mountain retreat in Bavaria in 1945.

BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)
Pic: H&HClassics/BNPS

Pictured centre is the second owner of the Bentley, from whose estate it is being offered for sale, Charles Philip Blackham.

Mr Blackham served with the RAF’s 1667 and 550 squadrons as a Flight Engineer and Pilot during World War Two.

A rust-bucket Bentley car that belonged to a war hero who bombed Adolf Hitler has sold for over £454,000.

The 1936 Bentley Vanden Plas tourer was bought by Charles Blackman seven years after the war.

Mr Blackham had been a Lancaster bomber pilot in the RAF and bombed Hitler's 'Eagles Nest' mountain retreat in Bavaria in 1945.