article_snippet: Yesterday former Dambuster pilot Les Munro remained a hero to the last – by putting them up for sale in honour of former Dambuster pilot Les Munro fallen comrades.
article_snippet: The 95-year-old RAF squadron leader, now the only surviving pilot of the legendary raid, is to auction His medals to help pay for the upkeep of Britain’s recently built memorial to the 55,573 airmen killed in the Second World War.
article_snippet: Squadron Leader Les Munro, 95, pictured, who is the last surviving Dambusters commander, hopes to raise £50,000 for the Bomber Command Memorial in London by selling his war medals .
article_snippet: Up for auction: former Dambuster pilot Les Munro will sell former Dambuster pilot Les Munro medal for New Zealand Order of Merit, above and, pictured left to right former Dambuster pilot Les Munro medals for Distinguished Service Order, New Zealand Queen's Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross, 1939-45 Star;
article_snippet: his war medals are expected to fetch around £50,000 when his war medals are sold with his flying logs and other memorabilia this month, but Squadron Leader Munro has pledged to donate the proceeds to the RAF Benevolent Fund, the welfare charity that maintains the Bomber Command Memorial in London in Green Park.
article_snippet: the Bomber Command Memorial costs £50,000 a year to maintain, and Squadron Leader Munro wants to help pay for the Bomber Command Memorial .
highlights_snippet: Les Munro hopes to raise £50,000 for upkeep of the central London RAF memorial .
  