8th Air Force 981 Operation Chowhound
6 May 1945https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/crew/59, owner of an original slide of photo.
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
VOGELENZANG
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
- Nicknames: Flak Evader
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Heavy Date
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Excelsior
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th 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: Miss Hell
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
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'.