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Age:
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Panel Reference
Memorial
W/OP Sergeant
1379175
18/01/1943
20
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
76 Sqdn.
Panel 151.
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of Douglas and Evelyne May Green, of Langthorpe, Yorkshire. http://www.cwgc.org/find-wardead/casualty/1798782/GREEN,%20PETER%20HARRY%20BARROWCLOUGH%20P http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/airfields/lintonouse.html
1. 17 Jan 1943
2. Halifax II DT647 coded MP-P - 76 Sqn RAF Linton-on-Ouse
3. Target – BERLIN
4. Take off time – 1622 hrs
5. Crew: Capt NAESS B (RNAF – Royal Norwegian Air Force) Pilot
Sgt LAMB L
Lt INDSETH R (RNAF)
Sgt STINTON AVD
Sgt SAUNDERS AR
Sgt MOODY MC
Sgt GREEN PHBP

As you know, the aircraft was lost without trace and the crew are remembered on the Runnymede
Memorial.
Dave Williams
Flt Lt | Media Communications Officer |RAF Linton-on-Ouse | YO30 2AJ

Date / Class
17.01.43
Aircraft
Halifax II – DT 647 MP-P
Mission/Time
Bombing Operation – 16:22 unk
Reason
German Aircraft – NJG 3
Unit/Airfield
76 Squadron – Linton on Ouse
Pilot/Crewmember
Kapt. Bjørn Håkon Næss
Sgt Lamb
Sgt Moody
Sgt Stinton
Sgt Saunders
Sgt Green
Fate
Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg – crashed possibly off Dutch Coast
Remarks
Aircraft had the city of Berlin as target this night. No British information was given after the start and from then on the aircraft disappeared without trace. However, a German report shows that
DT647 was in combat with Lt Paul Zorner,in a ME 110 of NACHTJAGDGRUPPE I./NJG 3 -
Kommandeur Major E. z Lippe-Weissenfeld and brought down into the water at 21.55 NW island
Juist http://www.rafandluftwaffe.info/lists/raf1.htm

Until the middle of 1942 Zorner was a transport pilot with 150 missions. He was then posted to night-fighter duties with II./NJG 2 in July 1942, then onto IV./NJG 2 in October, Squadron
Commander 2./NJG 3 in December, Squadron Commander 8./NJG 3 in September 1943, Group
Commander III./NJG 5 in March 1944, Group Commander II./NJG 100 in November 1944. He was awarded his Knight`s Cross in August 1944 followed by the Oak Leaves in September. He completed
272 missions, of which 108 missions at night, and scored 59 night victories. http://www.aviationcollectables.co.uk/catalog/spgl12brmajorpaul-zorner-p-149.html

No.76 Squadron, RFC, was formed at Ripon, Yorkshire, on 15th September 1916, as a Home Defence unit. Headquarters were at Ripon and flights were stationed at Copmanthorpe, Helperby and
Catterick from its formation until March 1919. In June 1919, the squadron was disbanded at
Tadcaster. The squadron was re-formed in April 1937, at Finningley, Yorkshire, as a bomber unit equipped with Wellesleys, but by the outbreak of the Second World War it had been re-equipped with Hampdens and Ansons and had assumed the role of a Group (No. 5) training unit. In late
September 1939, it moved and transferred to Upper Heyford and No. 6 (Training) Group, and in April
1940, was absorbed into No. 16 OTU. After a false start it re-formed in May 1941 - again in Yorkshire
- as a Halifax heavy bomber squadron in No. 4 Group. The second squadron to fly the Halifax, it began operations on the night of 12/13th June 1941, and maintained its offensive until the end of the European war was in sight.
The squadron bombed targets of the widest variety-from industrial centres, railways, gun batteries, oil and petrol installations, to the Channel Ports, Noball sites and concentrations of troops and armour-and on the night of 10/11th April 1942, it made history by dropping the first 8,000lb High
Capacity bomb on the enemy in a raid on Essen 1 . Two further highlights of its war record were its participation in a series of three attacks on the Tirpitz in the Trondheim area in March and April
1942, and in the heavy raid on Peenemunde in August 1943. In addition to operating in Europe No.
76, or more accurately, a detachment from it, operated in the Middle East for a while (in 1942) and then merged with a detachment from No. 10 Squadron to become No. 462 Squadron, RAAF.
From August 1942 to April 1943, No 76 Squadron was commanded by Wing Commander GL
Cheshire. When he left the squadron on being posted to Marston Moor as station commander, No.
76's diarist wrote: "What the squadron has lost Marston Moor will gain. It was under the character and personal supervision of Group Captain Cheshire that the squadron became what it is today-one of the best in Bomber Command". http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/76squadron.cfm