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An Avro Lancaster with a food drop over Ypenburg during Operation Manna. Operation Manna and Operation Chowhound were humanitarian food drops to relieve the Dutch famine of 1944–45 in the German-occupied Netherlands undertaken by Allied bomber crews during the last 10 days of the official war in Europe.
Operation Manna was the codeword for a Second World War operation by the British and Greek forces in Greece in mid-October 1944, following the gradual withdrawal of ...
In early 1945, Geddes was responsible for the organising of Operations Manna and Chowhound; the dropping of food and other essentials to the starving Dutch population still in the occupied areas of the Netherlands. The first food drops began on 29 April 1945, even though no formal treaty had been signed between the Allies and Germans.
The following month, more humanitarian interventions took place, this time by airdrops. From 29 April to 7 May Operation Manna was conducted by the Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force. From 1 to 8 May, the U.S. Army Air Forces conducted Operation Chowhound. The Germans agreed not to shoot at the planes flying the mercy missions, and ...
Some pundits and skeptics have serious doubts about the S&P 500’s ability to pull off the hattrick of 20% return years. Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) senior market strategist Scott Wren thinks that ...
Larkswood (1945) — Belgian SAS reconnaissance operation ahead of Canadian and Polish units in Holland and Germany; Manna and Chowhound — Food droppings in Holland to relieve the Dutch famine. Nestegg (1945) — reoccupation of the Channel Islands; Nordwind ("North Wind") (1945) — attempt to open a second front in Alsace
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When the doors opened, dozens of men and women were ushered to a reception center where first they were greeted by Guatemalan Vice President Karin Herrera and other officials.