Browse Items (56 total)
- Collection: Sparkes, Ned
Fate Deals a Blow
Tags: aircrew; crash; George Medal; pilot
Hamburg operation and combat report
Tags: 431 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Ju 88; pilot; wireless operator
431 Squadron crest
Tags: 431 Squadron
W Sparkes’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1659 HCU; 1668 HCU; 29 OTU; 297 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 85 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Dominie; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Halifax Mk 7; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Croft; RAF Dishforth; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lyneham; RAF Silloth; RAF St Athan; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Topcliffe; training; Wellington
Letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Royal Air Force
Air Training Corps - certificate of proficiency
Tags: training
Caricature - Ned
Tags: aircrew; arts and crafts
Report of Lancaster wreckage stored at RAF Gatow
Service training
Right - three airmen wearing tunics, two sitting in front and one standing behind. Captioned 'No 3…
431 Squadron
Tags: 4 Group; 431 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bombing; ground crew; Halifax; Lancaster; RAF Burn; RAF Croft; RAF Tholthorpe; Wellington
Crew
Top right - seven aircrew wearing Mae…
Operations
Below left - descriptions of the four operations giving numbers and types of aircraft used,…
Operations
Below - two documents giving accounts of these two operations with types of aircraft used, losses, enemy fighter operations, weather,…
Tags: 431 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Croft
Operations, the railway plan
Top left - extract from Ned Sparkes's logbook from 1 March 1944 to 29 March 1944 with operations to Trappes, Le Mans (twice), Brest,…
Tags: 3 Group; 4 Group; 431 Squadron; 5 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; mine laying; Mosquito; RAF Croft; Stirling
The Nuremburg raid and target token
Operations
Underneath - six short documents with accounts of these six operations…
Tags: 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders
Operation Overlord
Top left - newspaper cutting providing account of plan for attack on Merville battery including saturation bombing by Lancasters and ground attack. Goes on with account of actual…
Tags: 1 Group; 4 Group; 5 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders
Operations
Right - three short documents one partially obscured two relating to flying bomb sites, and…
Hamburg operation and aircraft losses
Below - document listing all aircraft lost on squadron with…
Tags: 431 Squadron; bombing; crash; Halifax; mid-air collision; shot down; training