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This Lancaster LM 594 A – Able2, a 576 Squadron Centurion with 104 operations to her credit
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was flown by the crew on its 99 operation to Rotterdam on the 1 May 1945 as part of No. 1
Group’s contribution to Operation ʻMannaʼ. This operation delivering food relief by Bomber
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Command and the United States 8 Air force to prevent mass starvation of the Dutch population
trapped between the allied and German forces in Holland.
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This Lancaster was struck of charge and sent to the scrapyard on the 13 February 1947.
