Anything that flew with Invasion Stripes in 1944 ...

[civvystreet]

deserves respect and remembering ... right!!?

Well if that's the case why don't I know anything about the aircraft in this first photo?
What is it and what could have been it's missions?
I leave it to you smarter historians to educate me.

As others have said it's a Handley Page HP.42 Harrow Ambulance (nicknamed the Sparrow)

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item ... /205127051
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item ... /205210464
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item ... /205210465 interior with litters racks
and just by chance today on the 'relaunched' Key Aero forum there's an HP Sparrow in colour taking Czech Spitfire pilots for some R&R at around 16.07 minutes in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2aVG7j ... e=youtu.be

And from the Australian War Memorial site (maybe the last operational Sparrow ambulance?) at Evere, Brussels post D-Day



Whoopee I've done some photo inserts

plus: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tDM ... ce&f=false