Hundreds of people gathered in Rotterdam on May 2 to mark the 70th anniversary of Operation Manna.
By Goodchild A (F/O) : Royal Air Force official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
From Apr. 28 till May 7, 1945, the Royal Air Force utilized its bombers to drop nearly 7,000 tonnes of food over still-unliberated western part of the Netherlands.
The U.S. Army Air Forces joined the campaign from May 1-8 under Operation Chowhound.
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