During the war Bomber Command was tasked with attacking Germany's airbases, troops, shipping and industry.
The MoD has also announced a Bomber Command clasp, for bravery and service during the war.
It commemorates the 55, 573 members of the Bomber Command who lost their lives during World War II.
The Bomber Command clasp is still not a medal, it's really a compromise, but it is recognition.
Mr Clarke volunteered for Bomber Command in 1940, and was accepted as a wireless operator and air gunner.
The Bomber Command clasp will attach to the 1939 to 1945 Star for which those veterans had previously qualified.
The Bomber Command Memorial Appeal secured funding from public donations and private donors John Caudwell, Lord Ashcroft and Richard Desmond.
The government has said it will now help pay the bill for the unveiling of the Bomber Command Memorial in London.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) site was home to RAF Bomber Command in World War II and became redundant in 2004.
Police were called to the RAF Bomber Command War Memorial at 05:00 BST and found engravings on the monument covered with paint.
In 2008, Gibb was at the forefront of the campaign for a permanent memorial in London to the men of Bomber Command.
It said it did not normally support opening ceremonies for public memorials, but had made an exception "given the unique circumstances of the Bomber Command Memorial".
The Bomber Command Heritage charity had wanted to take over the entire site as a museum to remember the role played by RAF bomber crews during World War II.
After graduating from Oxford he joined the RAF and served in Bomber Command eventually being shot down over the Netherlands while his aircraft was on a mine laying operation.
Senior RAF officers saw the possible disappearance of the Tornado, which is the last vestige of the service's wartime Bomber Command, as a threat to the future existence of their service.
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The ceremony was followed by a charity garden party for 400 people in the grounds of The Prebendal, with all money raised going to the Bomber Command Memorial Maintenance Appeal Fund.
Bicester Heritage Limited will operate the site after they submitted a bid alongside three other organisations, including Bomber Command Heritage who wanted to preserve the base as a museum to Bomber Command.
The Bomber Command clasp was introduced in February, following a review of military decorations by former diplomat Sir John Holmes, who concluded that Bomber Command had been treated "inconsistently" with their Fighter Command counterparts.
And we have there the explicit instructions for the head of Bomber Command, if the Prime Minister's wiped out, and he can't find an alternative senior minister, the airman, on his own initiative, can launch retaliation.
Seventy years on their bravery is being recognised with the Arctic Star medal for those who sailed on the convoys and the Bomber Command clasp for those who flew at least one operational mission over Germany and France.
If, at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, for example, which you and I remember because we were around, it had all gone wrong and the Russians had put a bolt from the blue on London and Mr MacMillan was killed, the decision whether to launch the B-force, the B-bombers with their hydrogen bombs, would have gone to the Chief of Bomber Command, an airman in uniform.
Campaign group Bomber Heritage Command (BCH) hopes to establish a museum and education centre at RAF Bicester.
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