• Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Date of birth:

November 10th, 1921

Date of death:

July 30th, 1943 (Opijnen, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

American War Graves Protestant Churchyard Opijnen

Service number:

39 099 394

Nationality:

American

Harold Royce Sparks grew up in Alameda. August 13th, 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in San Francisco. He served as waist gunner on the B-17 41-24399 "MAN-O-WAR", 91st Bomber Group (H).
July 30th, 1943, the aircraft returned from a raid on the Messerschmidt works at Kassel, Germany. On the return flight the aircraft came under attack by Focke Wulff 190 fighters of Jagdgeschwader 26. Ultimately, the aircraft was shot down by Leutnant Johannes Neumann and Harold Royce Sparks lost his life.

Do you have more information about this person? Inform us!

• Photo 1: Andrea Hunting (Klassikat)
• Photo 2: Frits Kruishaar
• Photo: Andrea Hunting (Klassikat)/Frits Kruishaar (grave)
  
• - "Freedom is not Free"
  - 91st Bomb Group (H)
  

Helaas geen map gevonden.