FOCUS: Dumbo, like Ron, proves a survivor

By Di Thomas
Updated April 20 2015 - 12:45pm, first published April 18 2015 - 12:00am

Ron Clarkson will be three weeks short of his 97th birthday when he takes part in Albury’s Anzac Day commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of Anzac. Here he tells DI THOMAS the incredible story of how a young man from South Australia found himself as a gunner in a Halifax plane from Bomber Command, surviving 40 sorties over Europe during World War II.

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