Amerikaanse B-17 vliegtuigen boven Utrecht om voedselpakketten af te werpen in het kader

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The humanitarian operation «Manna-Chowhound» - relief food to the starving Dutch population in the last days before the surrender of Germany. Departures were made over the occupied territories of the Netherlands from April 29 to May 8, 1945 6680 tons delivered RAF, 4,000 tons - the US Air Force, whose operation was called "Glutton" (English Chowhound.). Consent for humanitarian operations gave Reichskommissar occupied Netherlands Arthur Seyss-Inquart (executed by the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal). During operation «Chowhound» 400 US B-17 bomber dropped 4,000 tons Soldiers rations.