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Manna from the heavens, the food parcels dropped by the B-17's of the
3rd Air Division. 100th Photo Archives |
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Food parcels just released from the bomb bay of a 100th Bomb Group
aircraft. Photo courtesy of Eric Heijink.
Eric's Chowhound Website |
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"Thank you, boys" spelled out in field showing gratitude of the
Dutch people for the food drops.100th Photo Archives |
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"Thank you America." Dutch postcard created in May 1945 and mailed
June 1945 from Amsterdam to Long Island, New York, featuring a USAAF
385th BG H B-17 dropping food over Schiphol, AF Amsterdam.
Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary |
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Postmark from the postcard showing June 1945 mailing. Photo
courtesy of Jack O'Leary |
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Left: Rare Dutch Delft 1945 tile made to remember the Operation
Chowhound-Manna food drop missions features RAF Lancasters dropping
food with woman and child waving flag below. April 29-May 5, 1945.
Right: (In Dutch) FOOD PEACE FREEDOM 1995 Dutch Delft plate made on
the 50th Anniversary remembrance of the Operation Chowhound-Manna
events in Holland. Plate depicts a B-17 dropping food over
Amsterdam with church steeple in view. Photo courtesy of
Jack O'Leary |
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Close-up of tile pictured above on left. The tile reads: FOOD PEACE
FREEDOM 29 April 1945 5 May.
Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary. |
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A page from John O'Leary's WWII scrapbook. Photo courtesy of Jack
O'Leary |
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Dutch medal commemorating Operation Chowhound. Photo courtesy
Jack O'Leary |
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"Blessed those that gave wings to the words that Jesus spoke on the
mountain top." (The tribute is in 'Old Dutch' and does not translate
well into English.) Translation courtesy of Eric Heijink, Photo
courtesy of Jack O'Leary |
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100th BG (H) aircraft low over Amsterdam rooftops taken during USAAF
Operation Chowhound, May 1945. Photo courtesy of Dutch
Photographer, Cees Jongkind |
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Aircraft 43-38314 LN-S LITTLE DINAH I'LL BE AROUND piloted by 2nd
Lt. Eldred N. Clipperton on 2 May,1945.
Photo courtesy of Dutch Photographer, Cees Jongkind |
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100th BG (H) aircraft low over Amsterdam rooftops taken during USAAF
Operation Chowhound, May 1945.
Photo courtesy of Dutch Photographer, Cees Jongkind |
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100th BG (H) aircraft low over Amsterdam rooftops taken during USAAF
Operation Chowhound, May 1945. Photo courtesy of Dutch
Photographer, Cees Jongkind |
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100th BG (H) aircraft low over Amsterdam rooftops taken during USAAF
Operation Chowhound, May 1945. Photo courtesy of Dutch
Photographer, Cees Jongkind |
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100th BG (H) aircraft low over Amsterdam rooftops taken during USAAF
Operation Chowhound, May 1945. Photo courtesy of Dutch
Photographer, Cees Jongkind |
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100th BG (H) aircraft low over Amsterdam rooftops taken during USAAF
Operation Chowhound, May 1945. Photo courtesy of Dutch
Photographer, Cees Jongkind |
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2000 Dutch document Prince Bernhardt sent to Bill Varnedoe, 385th BG,
550th BS Navigator for the Chowhound missions, on the 55th
Anniversary of the Chowhound missions. Photo courtesy of Bill
Varnedoe |
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3 May1945 Chowhound Schiphol AF Chowhound mission 96thBG AAF photo.
Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary |
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Two Heiniken mugs given to the RAF and USAAF veterans as a gift from
the Dutch people. Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary |
 | Chowhound mission - Holland Food Drop,
Amsterdam. Photo courtesy of Cornelius J. O'Leary
Collection |
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The 349th's XR-P Grumblin Gremlin II on the Chowhound Mission
100th Photo Archives |
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Official 8th Air Force photo of a 390th BG, 13th Combat Wing ship
during the Chowhound Mission. |
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Back caption of 8th Air Force photo above, May 1945, cleared by
censors stamp. |
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Formation chart for the May 2nd Chowhound Mission. (100th Archives) |
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Formation chart for May 3rd Chowhound Mission. Courtesy of
Jack O'Leary. |
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Formation chart for May 5th Chowhound Mission. Courtesy of George
Sharpe, Jr. |
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Full formation chart for May 5th Chowhound Mission Courtesy of Jack
O'Leary |
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Formation chart for the May 6th Chowhound Mission. Courtesy of Jack
O'Leary. |
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Formation chart for May 7th Chowhound Mission. Courtesy of George
Sharpe, Jr. |
 | Departing the English Coast climbing to briefed altitude for a Chow-Hound mission (100th Photo Archives) |
 | Crossing the Dutch Coast inbound, climbing to briefed altitude for a Chow-Hound mission. (100th Photo Archives) |
 | Chow Hound Mission 351st Aircraft in the foreground. (100th Photo Archives) |
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Chow Hound Mission - food being dropped from the 351st Aircraft in the foreground
at Bergen/Alkmaar Airfield. (100th Photo Archives) |
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Chow Hound Mission over Bergen/Alkmaar Airfield in Holland. The 418th
Squadron A/C is 44-8616 LD-Z flown by the Arthur A. Leader crew. Leader
crew information Photo courtesy of Hans Nauta |
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Bob Stivers leading the 100th BG on their last Chowhound
mission on 349th BS PFF "MIKE" XR-M. Food parcels seen leaving the bomb
bay low over Schiphol, AF. The image was given to me many years
ago by the 100th BG pilot that took the photo, Earl Cullamore.
Link to Stivers
crew page.
Courtesy Jack O'Leary |
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Mission: Amsterdam (100th Photo Archives) |
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Charlie "Hong Kong" Wilson with his Operation Chowhound Plaque.
Link to Wilson
crew page. Courtesy Curtis Wilson |
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Close detail of Operation Chowhound Plaque. Courtesy Curtis Wilson |
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1995 50th Anniversary Plaque. Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary |
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Utrecht, Holland, gets emergency food supplies from the air.
Reversing their war-time role of high-altitude heavy bombardment,
air crews of U. S. 8th AF's 385th Bomb Group skimmed over Holland
the first three days of May 1945 dropping hundreds of cases of U. S.
Army "10 in 1" rations to the beleaguered Dutch civilian population.
Each carton contains three meals for ten men. The menu was
sausage, bacon, corned beef, baked beans, cereal, vegetables,
coffee, condensed milk, sugar, preserved butter and a variety of
other items - including cigarettes, as the rations were originally
packed for combat troops and then diverted by wartime necessity to
the starving Dutch civilians. Each day approximately 400
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses dropped 800 tons of food.
Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary |
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Streaming from bomb bay of low-flying Boeing B-17 of the U. S. 8th
AF 390th Bomb Group are cases of
U. S. Army "10 in 1" rations, each containing three meals for 10
men. Eight hundred tons of food, enough food for 1,080,000
meals were dropped by 400 heavy bombers on four different targets in
Holland.
Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary |
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THANK YOU BOYS - From the starving people of Holland, these thanks
written out in chalk on the ground, go out to the airmen of the U.
S. 8th AF who have dropped tons of food to them in the past
fortnight. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, 2150 in all, have
dropped more than 2,500 tons of food to the Dutch.
Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary |
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