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Operation ‘Manna’ and Operation ‘Chowhound’ were humanitarian food drops,
carried out to relieve a famine in German-occupied Netherlands, undertaken by
Allied bomber crews during the final days of World War II in Europe.
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‘Chowhound’ (1 to the 8 May) was an operation by the U.S. Army Air Forces,
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which dropped, together with Operation ‘Manna’, a total of over 11,000 tons, of food
into the still unliberated western part of the Netherlands, with the acquiescence of
the occupying German forces to help feed Dutch civilians in danger of starvation.

After it was realized that ‘Manna’ and ‘Chowhound’ would be insufficient, a ground-
based relief operation named Operation ‘Faust’ was launched. On 2 May, 200
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Allied trucks began delivering food to the city of Rhenen, behind German lines.

Film of Operation Manna
Operation Mann veterans interviews

Operation Chowhound