Author: Hans Onderwater This book by Hans Onderwater is the standard work about the food drop missions over Occupied Holland with a bundle of information, photos and first hand accounts of the hunger winter and the food drop missions.NEW FILM FOOTAGE OF OPERATION MANNA
The city archive of Rotterdam has published new film footage of the food drop missons by the allies over Western Holland, today exactly 66 years ago.
The film was made by Carel van der Zwam, the father of Riet Schoute who recently donated it to the War and Resistance Museum in Rotterdam (source: nu.nl)
On the film you can see the Lancaster bombers of the RAF flying low over Terbregge (near Rotterdam) and dropping their food.
People are gathereing the burlap bags in which the food was dropped. By horse drawn carts the food is broght to river barges to take the food to the distribution points.
During Operation Manna, which lasted from 29th April 1945 until 7th May 1945 the RAF dropped hundreds of tons of food for the starving Dutch population of Western Holland. The American USAAF joined the operation under the name Operation Chowhound.
