Bill Sparks
Military Person
1922 – 2002
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Who was Bill Sparks?
William Edward "Bill" Sparks DSM was a British Royal Marine Commando in World War II. He was the last survivor of the "Cockleshell Heroes"; a team of commandos who paddled 85 miles from the Bay of Biscay up the Gironde River to Bordeaux German occupied France, to plant limpet mines on merchant ships supplying the Nazi war machine.
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- Born
- Sep 5, 1922
United Kingdom - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- Nov 30, 2002
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on July 23, 2013
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