8th Air Force 977 Operation Chowhound
3 May 1945
Object Number - UPL 35151
Official Description
390-plus B-17’s drop food supplies at Schiphol and Alkmnar A/Fs, and near Vogelenzang,, Hilversum, and Utrecht
Mission Details
Description: FOOD DROP
ALKMAAR
Description: FOOD DROP
HILVERSUM
Description: FOOD DROP
SCHIPOL
Description: FOOD DROP
Notes: 739.1 tons of food are dropped.
UTRECHT
Description: FOOD DROP
VOGELENZNAG
Description: FOOD DROP
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 3rd Air Division 13th Combat Bomb Wing 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 391st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37480721 and 0-784131
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 7th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-780560
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 391st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18162274
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 7th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Senior Master Sergeant
- Role/Job: Gunner (tail)
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: N/a
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Passion Wagon ; Victory Devils
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Round Tripper
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Queen Mary ; Melvin’s Moonshiners
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Umbragio
- Unit: 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'.
