8th Air Force 981 Operation Chowhound

6 May 1945
media-35151.png UPL 35151

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

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

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Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th 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: Evasive Action
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Clay Pigeon
  • Unit: 412th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron

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Food Parcels dropped to starving people of Holland

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Sources

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'.

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