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Pictured: Squadron Leader Alfred Clarke's log book page from November 1944.
The heroics of an RAF pathfinder pilot who kept a major bombing raid on track and got his crew home with his aircraft on fire can be revealed after his medals sold for £4,300.
Squadron Leader Alfred Clarke's Lancaster plane came under attack by a German night-fighter near to Cologne, setting one of its engines ablaze.
The crew's rear gunner was also badly wounded and unable to defend them from a hostile barrage.
Nevertheless, Sq Ldr Clarke ploughed on as following his aircraft were 282 Allied bombers relying on his crew to drop sky markers on their targets.
Pic: Bosleys/BNPS
Pictured: Squadron Leader Alfred Clarke's log book page from November 1944.
The heroics of an RAF pathfinder pilot who kept a major bombing raid on track and got his crew home with his aircraft on fire can be revealed after his medals sold for £4,300.
Squadron Leader Alfred Clarke's Lancaster plane came under attack by a German night-fighter near to Cologne, setting one of its engines ablaze.
The crew's rear gunner was also badly wounded and unable to defend them from a hostile barrage.
Nevertheless, Sq Ldr Clarke ploughed on as following his aircraft were 282 Allied bombers relying on his crew to drop sky markers on their targets.
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