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Operation Manna

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.
It give a complete overview of the drop zones, the units involved and the amount of food that was dropped.

Photos in Dutch archives

Almost 400 photos of the food drop missions in Dutch archives are online!

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the above photos are from oorlogsbronnen.nl

OPERATION / MANNA CHOWHOUND

29 APRIL 1945 OP MANNA ENROUTE. Photo courtesy: Christopher Coverdale.

Lancaster bomber with open bomb bay. Photo Courtesy: Roelof Buitink

29TH APRIL OPERATION MANNA PASSING OVER ROTTERDAM. Photo courtesy: Christopher Coverdale.

Lancasters over The Haque. Photo Courtesy: Han Ketting

Flares marking the dropzone at Terbregge. Photo Courtesy: Henk Kleinsmit

Loading up the food parcels at RAF Downham Market in a Lancaster of the 635th Squadron. Photo Credit: Squadron Leader Howard .W. Lees.

29TH APRIL 1945 THE HAGUE OPS MANNA SCHEVENINGEN KURHAUS. Photo courtesy: Christopher Coverdale.

Burlap bags dropped during Operation Manna. Collection: Andreas Huurman

The Manna Monument at Terbregge

Place of commemoration

At the exact spot of one of the dropzones overlooking the freeway at Terbregge is the Manna monument located. It symbolizes the belly of an allied bomber filled with food parcels. The monument has been the central location of the Manna / Chowhound commemorations since its unveilling in 2006. One year later the Air Commodore Geddes footpath was opened next to the memorial.

Diary of Norman Coats

Belly turret gunner, 390th Bomb Group

May 3 - "Another mercy mission to Holland. We went deeper into Holland today. Very low altitude. I believe I must have waved at everyone in Holland. It is really a shame the ocean being turned into Holland. The great fields of tulips are beautiful. They had, "Thank You" spelled out with rocks. They could see me waving at them because they would point each others attention to it. Some of them had American flags waving them."

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Operation Manna