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PostPosted: Mon Jan 17, 2022 8:11 pm 
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And B-17's B-26's and a few others.

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1001754
Thunderbolts in color

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B-17's in color

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B-26's in color


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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000357
C-47's & T-bolts in color

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Do you know what the B-17's are dropping ?
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They were dropping post-war survival supplies in the Netherlands if I recall. Food, medical supplies etc.

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Operations Manna and Chowhound were conducted in May 1945, before the end of the war, and involved the RAF and USAAF, as Mark says, dropping relief supplies to Dutch civilians with the tacit approval of the occupying Germans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation ... _Chowhound


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The Lancaster at MOTAT NZ is marked as an aircraft with a Manna mission.

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