May 2, 1945 was the second Operation Chowhound mission for the 100th BG, and they dropped food parcels for the Dutch people over Schiphol Airfield. Pilot George W. McLeod recalled “We flew in low over Holland, still enemy territory, to deliver our load to a portion of the starving Dutch people. Only a few hundred feet above the ground, we really saw things first hand over there. I saw hundreds of people waving as waving as we passed over settlements, towns and cities along our course. They dance
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May 2, 1945 was the second Operation Chowhound mission for the 100th BG, and they dropped food parcels for the Dutch people over Schiphol Airfield. Pilot George W. McLeod recalled “We flew in low over Holland, still enemy territory, to deliver our load to a portion of the starving Dutch people. Only a few hundred feet above the ground, we really saw things first hand over there. I saw hundreds of people waving as waving as we passed over settlements, towns and cities along our course. They dance
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Operation Chowhound was one of the 100th Bomb Group’s finest hours, and today we mark the 80th anniversary of those humanitarian missions. By the spring of 1945, portions of the Netherlands were still under German occupation, and the Dutch people were facing starvation. Following negotiations with German officials in the Netherlands, an agreement was reached which allowed American and Allied bomber crews to fly within a designated corridor without the fear of enemy fire to drop parcels. The 100t
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Operation Chowhound was one of the 100th Bomb Group’s finest hours, and today we mark the 80th anniversary of those humanitarian missions. By the spring of 1945, portions of the Netherlands were still under German occupation, and the Dutch people were facing starvation. Following negotiations with German officials in the Netherlands, an agreement was reached which allowed American and Allied bomber crews to fly within a designated corridor without the fear of enemy fire to drop parcels. The 100t
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A few days after their Operation Chowhound mission, the Robert Ellis crew shot this footage over in the 351st Squadron area. The quality of the film varies in sections, but it gives you a unique glimpse of daily life on base at Thorpe Abbotts. (Ellis collection, 100th BG Foundation archives) | 100th Bomb Group Foundation - "The Bloody Hundredth"
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The 29th April marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Manna, the humanitarian food drop into occupied Netherlands at the end of World War II. Much of the Netherlands was suffering from a terrible famine known as “Hongerwinter” or Hunger Winter with many thousands facing starvation. The British launched Operation Manna to drop food packages from Avro Lancaster bombers from as low as 50 feet. The Lancasters were crewed by British, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and Polish squadron members. The
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Operation Chowhound was commemorated over the weekend at Thorpe Abbotts with an event featuring amateur radio operators communicating with their counterparts across the world. Operation Chowhound along with Operation Manna saw aircraft from the USAAF and the RAF drop desperately needed food supplies to the Dutch 80 years ago. #eighthairforce #100thbombgroup #amateurradio #usaaf #aviationmuseum #mastersoftheair #bloodyhundredth | 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum
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