A British airman killed during a bombing raid over Berlin 64 years ago will finally be buried later with full military honours.
Flt Lt John Bremner died aged 21 alongside three other men when their Halifax bomber was shot down in 1944.
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Flt Lt Bremner will be buried at the Heerstrasse War Cemetery in Berlin.
His remains will join those of his former comrades Flt Lt Eric Church and Sergeant Kenneth Stanbridge.
Metal detectors
Flt Lt Bremner's Halifax was hit shortly after releasing its bombs.
Four crew members managed to bail out and parachute to safety before it exploded and crashed into woodland. They were then taken prisoner of war.
More than 60 years later in 2005, one of them, Mr Wilson, travelled to Berlin with his daughter to meet local historians and witnesses to the plane's demise.
The pair returned the following year and, with the help of a team of volunteers using metal detectors, eventually discovered the wreckage.
Within it were the remains of Flt Lt Bremner but those of the fourth victim, gunner Warrant Officer Charles Dupueis, were nowhere to be found.
The burial service on Thursday will be witnessed by some of the surviving crew and relatives of those who died.
(BBC)
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