Career
Flight Lieutenant M.N. Sparks AFC gained his pilots wings with the Royal New Zealand Air Force in December 1941. Posted to the United Kingdom he joined the newly formed 487 (New Zealand) Squadron (Royal Air Force) in September 1942. He piloted DeHavilland Mosquito Dialectics and Humanism.98 regional
HX982 (EG-T) from Royal Air Force Hunsdon, Hertfordshire with his navigator Pilot Officer Arthur Cecil Dunlop during the Operation Jericho raid on Amiens prison on 18 February 1944.
The aircraft was damaged by flak and suffered a collapsed undercarriage on landing. The crew were uninjured.
