William Greenwood Updated: 29 JAN 2022
Airman: o888032.htm Surname: Greenwood
Init: W Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 82
P_link: p016.htm Plane: BLE R2772 Operation: Attack DK Crash_site: Off Egholm
Crash_d: d130840 Buried_d: o888 C_link: o888.htm At_Next: POW
BLE R2772 tog del i angrebet på Aalborg, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West den 13. august 1940.
Nedstyrtningsstedet er her.
Google Map p014-024 (Kilde:
Ole Rønnest)
Tre minutter senere styrtede
3. R 2772 ned
(her) ved
Egholm. Maskinen blev knust mod store sten. Mirakuløst overlevede
Blair, Magrath
og Greenwood, omend alle tre
alvorligt kvæstede. (Find
nummeret
(1.-11.) i
angrebet på - i tekst fra Skudt ned over Danmark)
Fra en krigsfangelejr i Tyskland brugte Bill Greenwood tid til at skrive til en filmstjerne i Hollywood. Se Keeping the spirits up - POW mail.
Sergeant William Greenwood var radiotelegrafist/skytte på R 2772. (Kilde: p016MACR.) Han blev ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.
Bombeflyet Bristol
Blenheim. p016MACR
BLE R2772 took part in the attack on
Aalborg airfield, Fliegerhorst Aalborg West, on 13 August, 1940.
The crash site is here.
See also
Google Map p014-024.
(Source:
Ole Rønnest)
Three minutes later,
3. R 2772
crashed
(here) at Egholm.
The aircraft broke up on hitting some large boulders.
It was a miracle that
Blair, Magrath and Greenwood survived, for all three had sustained serious
injuries. (Find the number
(1.-11.) in
Attack on - in text from
Shot down over Denmark)
Bill Greenwood spent some time in a POW camp in Germany on writing to a film star in Hollywood. See Keeping the spirits up - POW mail.
3 airmen.Sergeant William Greenwood was the Wireless Operator/Air Gunner of R 2772. (Source: p016MACR.) He was taken to German POW-Camps.
See No. 82 Squadron RAF
- Wikipedia
* 82 Squadron Blenheims,
Watton, 1940 * Bristol Blenheim
*
Aircraft
Restoration Company, Duxford -
Bristol Blenheim *
Blenheim L6739 -- Rolled Out.
Photo: RAF Memorial,
Watton by Ole Rønnest
The
reconstructed R3821 that visited
Aalborg in 2000 due to efforts by
Ole Rønnest.
Blenheim IV R2772 UX- took off from RAF Watton at 08:40 on 13 AUG 1940. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) Bristol Blenheim * p016MACR 3 airmen.