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119,792 standard food parcels. 4,200 diet supplement parcels for the ill. 5.2 tons of salt. Four tons of soap. 96,000 cigarettes. 37 cwt medical and surgical supplies (equivalent to 1,850kg or 3 ...
The Australian Red Cross reported dispatching a total of 395,695 food parcels and 36,339 clothing parcels to Allied POWs in Germany and Turkey during the course of the First World War. [2] Food parcels were also sent to needy civilians in Belgium and France.
The SS Vega arrived for the first time on 27 December 1944 and it supplied more than 119,000 standard food parcels. In the letter, Mr Rondel said: "I went to town to see her come into the harbour.
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.
The 10-in-1 food parcel, commonly known as the 10-in-1 ration, was a United States military ration issued during World War II. As its name implies, the 10-in-1 provided the needs of ten soldiers in a single ration package.
CARE's leaders worked with the U.S. Army to acquire 2.8 million Army surplus "10-in-1" food rations that had been stockpiled for an invasion of Japan that never transpired. These parcels, a form of MRE (Meals Ready to Eat), were sent to Europe. These rations become the world's first CARE Packages.
The DRK claimed that there was sufficient food and supplies at Theresienstadt, and Red Cross parcels were therefore unnecessary. [13] In May 1943, the ICRC received confirmation signed by the Jewish elder at Theresienstadt that some food parcels had reached it. [14]
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