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Starving Dutch population bombed with food -- streaming from the bomb bay of a
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Starving Dutch population bombed with food -- streaming from the bomb bay of a
Starving Dutch population bombed with food -- streaming from the bomb bay of a low-flying B-17 Flying Fortress of U.S. EIGTH AIR FORCE Ss 390th Bomb Group are cases of U.S. Armys 10 in 1 rations, each containing three meals for ten men. Eight hundred tons of food --enough food for 1, 080, 000 meals--was dropped by 400 heavy bombers on four targets on May 2. Marked with a large white cross and a red light, each area was surrounded by a circle a mile in diameter of cheering and sobbing staving Dutch civilians standing behind a row of green lights. The B-17s had been loaded for several days in England pending a clearance of dropping areas by the Germans. The menu was sausage, bacon, corned beef, baked beans, cereal, vegetables, coffee, condensed milk, sugar, preserved butter and a variety of other items. 2nd May 1945
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