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Dando-Collins, Stephen.
Subjects
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Food supply -- Netherlands.
Food relief, American -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century.
Survival and emergency rations -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century.
B-17 bomber -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
Netherlands -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
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Dando-Collins, Stephen.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Food supply -- Netherlands.
Food relief, American -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century.
Survival and emergency rations -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century.
B-17 bomber -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
Netherlands -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
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Operation Chowhound : the most risky, most glorious US bomber mission of WWII / Stephen Dando-Collins.
by
Dando-Collins, Stephen.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Call #:
940.531 D177o
Subjects
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th
--
History
.
World War, 1939-1945
--
Food
supply
--
Netherlands
.
Food
relief
,
American
--
Netherlands
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Survival and emergency rations
--
Netherlands
--
History
--
20th
century
.
B-17 bomber
--
History
.
World War, 1939-1945
--
Aerial operations,
American
.
Netherlands
--
Economic conditions
--
1918-1945.
ISBN:
9781137279637 (pbk.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 248 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Navigator Ellis B. Scripture's prayer
--
Hitler's secret agent
--
The suspect prince in the world of James Bond
--
The bridge too far : the failure to liberate Holland
--
The Germans go on the offensive
--
Surviving the hunger winter
--
An offer from Nazi Governor Seyss-Inquart
--
President "Dutch" Roosevelt's promise
--
"Beetle" Bedell Smith's plan
--
Farley Mowat goes behind German lines
--
The Achterveld Agreement
--
The first nervous test flight
--
Ike's hatchet man tells the Nazi Governor straight
--
The US 8th Air Force prepares for Chowhound
--
May 1, 1945 : B-17s over Holland at 400 feet
--
Germans open fire on Chowhound bombers
--
Audrey Hepburn's birthday present : the liberation of Holland
--
Grif Mumford's special air delivery to a Dutch sister
--
Bombardier Braidic's fateful decision
--
The end : for Seyss-Inquart and the War
--
The aftermath
--
The best thing we ever did in the War.
Summary:
Details Operation Chowhound, a daring World War II mission in which
American
aircrews dropped
food
to Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland.
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