Operations Manna, Chowhound and Faust-- Part 2

These took place 70 years ago in the Netherlands.

Operation Chowhound involved the U.S. Army Third Air Division which flew 2,268 sorties and delivered by airdrop some 4,000 tons of food to the starving Dutch.

The Germans did not fire on the Allied planes, but three were lost anyway.  Two collided and one had an engine fire.  However, some planes had bullet holes in then (they were flying low) so in some cases German soldiers obviously took pot shots at the planes.

--GreGen