Sixty years to the day after he flew off on his last mission, war hero Wing Commander Adrian Warburton will be remembered with a ceremony in Berinsfield.
The reconnaisance pilot's widow Eileen will unveil a sarsen stone and plaque memorial in the village burial ground on April 12.
Wg Cdr Warburton, 26, was based at RAF Mount Farm, at Berinsfield, when it housed the wartime joint RAF and US Army Air Force photograph reconnaissance group.
A highly decorated officer, he did not return from a mission to photograph German airfields on April 12, 1944, and mystery surrounded his disappearance for almost 58 years.
In the 1953 film about his exploits, The Malta Story, he was played by actor Sir Alec Guinness.
The remains of Wg Cdr Warburton and his Lockhead aircraft were discovered two years ago in Germany and he was buried there. His plane had been shot down by anti-aircraft fire and crashed near the village of Eglin-an-der-Paar, in Bavaria.
The memorial, paid for by the parish council, has been devised with the help of the Ridgeway Military and Aviation Research Group and it will be installed a month before the official unveiling. The village already has a memorial to the US airmen who served there and is regularly visited by American veterans.
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