8th Air Force 981 Operation Chowhound
6 May 1945
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
ALKMAAR
Description: FOOD DROP
HILVERSUM
Description: FOOD DROP
SCHIPOL
Description: FOOD DROP
Notes: 693.3 tons of food are dropped
UTRECHT
Description: FOOD DROP
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: Food Parcels dropped to starving people of Holland
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
VOGELENZANG
Description: FOOD DROP
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Engineer / Top Turret Gunner
- 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: 96th Bomb Group 338th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-828170
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Knock-Out Baby!
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hotter N Hell, Little King
- Unit: 34th Bomb Group 390th Bomb Group 391st Bomb Squadron 568th Bomb Squadron
- 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: Lovable lass
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
Revisions
Food Parcels dropped to starving people of Holland
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'.
