Pilot Officer Bruce Frederick Greenwood enlisted to the Royal Australian Air Force on 15 September 1942. He trained as a navigator in Australia and Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme, and went on to serve with 51 Squadron, based in the United Kingdom. In March 1945, Pilot Officer Greenwood and his crew were shot down over Germany after completing a bombing operation. The crew bailed out successfully. Five of the crew, including Pilot Officer Greenwood, were captured as prisoners of war and interrogated. Shortly afterwards, on 22 March 1945, they were taken to a nearby aerodrome by German soldiers and machine gunned from behind at a range of five feet. Pilot Officer Greenwood, alongside three of his fellow crew members was killed. One crewmember, Flying Officer Keith William Berick, escaped. His statements led to the identification and trial of the German soldiers, who were judged guilty of war crimes and subsequently executed. Pilot Officer Bruce Frederick Greenwood is buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Germany.