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
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
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People
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lady Faithful aka They've Had It
- Unit: 568th Bomb Squadron 390th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Deacon
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Little Joe
- Unit: 336th Bomb Squadron 95th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Chapel In The Sky
- Unit: 568th Bomb Squadron 390th 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'.