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"1/5/45. First day of USAAF’s Operation CHOWHOUND, air drops of food to starving Dutch civilians. Counterpart of RAF’s simultaneous Operation MANNA, participating aircraft were granted safe conduct by the Germans. The 5,500 American and British sorties flown delivered some 10,000 tons of supplies."
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"(American bomber low over fields, with dozens of packages spilling from its bomb bay) B-17 dropping food parcels over the Netherlands. The missions were flown as low as 400 feet, and with very few exceptions German AA gunners honoured the truce. 15 crews of the 385th Bombardment Group did, however, receive combat credit after straying off course and coming under fire. 📷 100th Bomb Group Museum via nationalww2museum.org"
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"(Group of men loading packages into the bomb bay of an aircraft) Ground crew loading food supplies into slings for hoisting into the bomb bay of an Avro Lancaster of No. 514 Squadron RAF at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. Between 29 April and 7 May 1945, Lancasters (and possibly some Halifaxes) of Bomber Command dropped 6,672 tons of food to the starving populace of a large area in Western Holland still in German hands. 📷©️IWM CH 15159"
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