ROYAL AIR FORCE: 2ND TACTICAL AIR FORCE, 1943-1945. - A successful night-fighter crew, Wing Commander W P Green (pilot, right), Commanding Officer of No. 219 Squadron RAF, and his radar-operator, Flight Lieutenant D A Oxby, head towards their De Havilland Mosquito NF Mark XXX for a sortie at B48/Amiens-Glisy, France. On their previous night sortie they shot down a Junkers Ju 87, constituting Green's 14th victory, and the 22nd enemy aircraft which Oxby had helped to destroy, - more than any other operator during the war. On 1 March 1945, Green took off from Amiens-Glisy to air-test a Mosquito,
ROYAL AIR FORCE: 2ND TACTICAL AIR FORCE, 1943-1945. - A successful night-fighter crew, Wing Commander W P Green (pilot, right), Commanding Officer of No. 219 Squadron RAF, and his radar-operator, Flight Lieutenant D A Oxby, head towards their De Havilland Mosquito NF Mark XXX for a sortie at B48/Amiens-Glisy, France. On their previous night sortie they shot down a Junkers Ju 87, constituting Green's 14th victory, and the 22nd enemy aircraft which Oxby had helped to destroy, - more than any other operator during the war. On 1 March 1945, Green took off from Amiens-Glisy to air-test a Mosquito, but crashed and was killed Royal Air Force, 219 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Maintenance Unit, 201
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