Operation Chowhound (1945)

airboyd.tv (Color, Silent) Operation Chowhound. Courtesy Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),18 SFP 9500,9501 US Army Air Force, 4th CCU Read more about the operation www.100thbg.com www.390th.org Read more about the BGs www.8thafhs.org www.8thafhs.org www.8thafhs.org From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org Operations Manna and Chowhound took place from 29 April to the end of World War II in Europe on 8 May 1945. These two operations—Manna by the Royal Air Force (29 April -- 7 May) and Chowhound by the US Air Force (1--8 May)—dropped a total of 11000 tons of food into the still-unliberated western part of the Netherlands, with the acquiescence of the occupying German forces, to help feed civilians who were in danger of starvation in the Dutch famine. When this proved insufficient, Operation Faust was launched as well. On 2 May, 200 Allied trucks began delivering food to the city of Rhenen, behind German lines.
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