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 | | Cyril Joe Barton, aged 22, was the only Halifax pilot to be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry. |
 | | Wreaths were laid by his navigator, Len Lambert, and, on behalf of Barton's sisters, by Alan Mitcheson, who as a schoolboy watched the aircraft circle and then crash, and who for years campaigned for a memorial to the pilot. |
 | | Barton's last mission was an extraordinary feat of skill and courage. |
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