Henry Greenberg
2nd Lt. Henry Greenberg was navigator aboard B-24J 42-100416 'Baggy Maggy' on the 18 September 1944 supply mission near Arnhem, flying in place of the crew's regular navigator, 2nd Lt. Wilmer D. Landon, who was on lead-navigator training duty that day. Listed with no middle initial (NMI) on the MACR. Reported missing in action after the aircraft was shot down; status remained MIA on the original MACR.
Greenberg and flight engineer Donald Dukeman were the two least seriously wounded in the crash and were marched together to a German holding point that night, then transported toward the Dulag Luft interrogation center with an overnight stop at the then-empty Nuremberg concentration camp -- an experience Dukeman's memoir describes as especially hard on Greenberg, who was Jewish. The two were separated in Berlin and sent to different POW camps; Greenberg survived roughly seven months as a POW.
After the war Greenberg never spoke of his service. He settled in Chicago, ran a hamburger stand on the South Side, and put both of his sons through law school without telling them what had happened to him. Dutch researcher Jos van Roozendaal searched for him for years without success, and he remained the one crew member never located during Van Roozendaal's lifetime. In May 2017, his son Mark Mayer Greenberg (later a prosecutor) contacted journalist Léon Krijnen after discovering his late father's wartime record online, and visited the Castelré memorial and the Hoogstraten school cellar where Greenberg and Dukeman had briefly been held. In May 2024, Henry's second son, Gordon Greenberg (a law partner in Los Angeles), and his wife Patti made the same visit -- both sons had learned of their father's service only after his death.
Sortie Log
18 SEP 1944
The sorties below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.