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The crew of an RAF Boston bomber are to be buried in a war cemetery in Italy, 68 years after their deaths.
The crew took off from Forli in northern Italy in the final days of World War II, but never returned and were thought to have been shot down.
The location of the remains of the three Britons and an Australian was unknown until an Italian team of amateur archaeologists discovered them near the city of Ferrara in 2011.
The burial will have military honours.
The plane's pilot, Sergeant David Raikes, from Redhill in Surrey, was 20 years old when he led the ill-fated mission to attack a bridge on the River Po.
Navigator Flight Sergeant David Millard Perkins, from Honour Oak in London, and wireless operator and air gunner Flight Sergeant Alexander Thomas Bostock, from Forest Row in Sussex, were both also 20.
Air gunner Warrant Officer John Penboss Hunt, from Shoalhaven in New South Wales, Australia, was 21.
Relatives of the men will attend the burial at Padua War Cemetery.
The aircraft was unearthed by Italian amateur archaeological society Archeologi dell'Aria, which searches for the remains of aircraft from World War II.
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