8th Air Force 981 Operation Chowhound
6 May 1945
https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/crew/59, owner of an original slide of photo.
Object Number - UPL 35151
Official Description
Around 380 B-17’s drop food supplies at Schiphol and Alkmaar airfields, Vogelenzang, Hilversum, and Utrecht.
Mission Details
Description: FOOD DROP
Description: FOOD DROP
Description: FOOD DROP
Notes: 693.3 tons of food are dropped
Description: FOOD DROP
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: Food Parcels dropped to starving people of Holland
Description: FOOD DROP
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 0 787 182
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Advanced Bombardier & D.R. Navigation
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14096166
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lucky Sherry : Temptation
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Princess Pat, Hannah’s Children
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 569th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Joyride : Big Chief Illiniwek
- Unit: 412th Bomb Squadron 95th Bomb Group
Revisions
Lee Cunningham, 8th Air Force missions research database / Stan Bishop's 'Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces', the Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces and the work of Roger Freeman including the 'Mighty Eighth War Diary'.