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| Name | Green John Henry |
| Rank | Pilot Officer |
| Crew position | Pilot |
| Service | RCAF |
| Aircraft | Hampden X3001 |
| Date of loss | 10/02/1941 |
| Target | Hannover |
| PoW camp(s) | L1/L3 |
| PoW number | 465 |
| Awarded the DFC | |
| 10/11 February,
1941; HANNOVER: Bomber Command dispatched 222 aircraft against industrial targets in Hannover. 49 Squadron had 12 aircraft airborne, following a briefing in which the Scampton Intelligence Officer had exhorted crews to cause 'maximum destruction' of their specified target. Whilst over Holland, Canadian pilot F/Lt John Green DFC (X3001) and crew fell victim to a German night fighter piloted by Lt Leopold Fellerer of II/NJG.2. The doomed aircraft crashed near Zuidscharwoude in Holland. Three members of the crew survived and were taken prisoner; sadly Sgt David Cruickshank, who had also baled out, was already dead when his parachute came to earth at Broek op Langendijk. He had sustained a head wound and it is presumed that he struck the tail plane when jumping; Sgt Cruickshank is buried in Alkmaar Cemetery, Holland. Hampden X3001 (EA-H) F/L J.H. Green DFC Pilot (P.o.W.) Sgt D.A. Cruickshank A/OB (Killed) W/O A.L. Bryceson W/AG (P.o.W.) W/O H.E. Fisher W/AG (P.o.W.) |
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from artist Lionel Jeans of Bournemouth in Dorset: In 1947 Flt Lt John H Green DFC was killed when his aircraft crashed into the sea off Bournemouth. He was performing a final victory roll in a Spitfire Mk XVIII at the request of a child in the crowds lining the seafront and raising money for the RAF charity. |
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