Percy Edward Green                                                                              Updated: 17 JAN 2022

Airman: e777216.htm Surname: Green Init: P E Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 106

P_link: p384.htm Plane: LAN ND682 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kattegat

Crash_d: d161244 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Sergeant Percy Edward Green, 39 år, var søn af George og Annie Green; gift med Grace Elsie Green, Feltham, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
Hans navn er på Panel 230 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

"15.-16. december 1944 (Kl. 03:53). Sydlige del af Kattegat. Lancaster Mk. III ND682 (ZN- ). 106 BS, 5 BG, Metheringham, Lincs. (Minering ved Gdynia)
5 MIA
og 2 KIA (Anholt og Pålsjo, Sverige)

15 Lancasters og 8 Halifaxes skulle kaste miner i danske farvande og i Østersøen. ND682 blev skudt ned i den sydøstlige del af Kattegat af en Ju88rt af Major Werner Husemann fra I/NJG3 (Grove). Flight engineer Sgt. John Frederick Emerson blev fundet den 6. marts 1945 ca. 8 sømil syd for Anholt, og han blev begravet den næste dag på Anholt kirkegård. Piloten, F/O Edgar Barrett blev fundet ved Kulla Gunnarstorp (nær Kulla Gunnarstorp Slot)  i Sverige og begravet på Pålsjö kirkegård ved Helsingborg den 7. marts 1945. Resten af besætningen har ingen kendt grav." (FT 88-42-38)
Se Lancaster fotos * p384MACR * Minelægningsområder. 7 flyvere.

Sergeant Percy Edward Green, 39, was the son of George and Annie Green, and the husband of Grace Elsie Green, of Feltham, Middlesex, United Kingdom.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 230, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 42. 

"15 -16 December 1944 at 03:53. Southern part of the Kattegat. Lancaster Mk. III ND682 (ZN- ). 106 BS, 5 BG, Metheringham, Lincs.
(Gardening at Gdynia) 5 MIA and 2 KIA (Anholt and Pålsjo, Sweden)

15 Lancasters and 8 Halifaxes were on a minelaying operation to Danish waters and the Baltic Sea. ND682 was shot down over the south eastern part of the Kattegat (by a Ju88 piloted by Major Werner Husemann from I/NJG3 (Grove). On 6 March 1945 Flight engineer Sgt. John Frederick Emerson was found  about 8 nautical miles south of Anholt, and he was buried the next day in Anholt Cemetery. Pilot, F/O Edgar Barrett was found at Kulla Gunnarstorp (near 
Kulla Gunnarstorp Castle) in Sweden and buried in Pålsjö Cemetery at Helsingborg on 7 March 1945. The rest of the crew have no known grave." (FT 88-42-38)

See  Lancaster * Lancaster photos * No. 106 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * No. 106 Squadron (RAF) during the Second World War * Minelaying areas *  p384MACR.
Lancaster III ND682 ZN-K took off from RAF Metheringham at 00:45 on 15 DEC 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this)  7 airmen.