Photo Gallery

Close detail of Operation Chowhound Plaque. Courtesy Curtis Wilson

1995 50th Anniversary Plaque. Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary

Utrecht, Holland, gets emergency food supplies from the air. Reversing their war-time role of high-altitude heavy bombardment, air crews of U. S. 8th AF's 385th Bomb Group skimmed over Holland the first three days of May 1945 dropping hundreds of cases of U. S. Army "10 in 1" rations to the beleaguered Dutch civilian population. Each carton contains three meals for ten men. The menu was sausage, bacon, corned beef, baked beans, cereal, vegetables, coffee, condensed milk, sugar, preserved butter and a variety of other items - including cigarettes, as the rations were originally packed for combat troops and then diverted by wartime necessity to the starving Dutch civilians. Each day approximately 400 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses dropped 800 tons of food. Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary

Streaming from bomb bay of low-flying Boeing B-17 of the U. S. 8th AF 390th Bomb Group are cases of U. S. Army "10 in 1" rations, each containing three meals for 10 men. Eight hundred tons of food, enough food for 1,080,000 meals were dropped by 400 heavy bombers on four different targets in Holland. Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary

THANK YOU BOYS - From the starving people of Holland, these thanks written out in chalk on the ground, go out to the airmen of the U. S. 8th AF who have dropped tons of food to them in the past fortnight. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, 2150 in all, have dropped more than 2,500 tons of food to the Dutch. Photo courtesy of Jack O'Leary

"Food Away" Photo courtesy of Phil Robbs

The Griswold Smith Crew (Left to Right) Standing: DeLome Cumbaa, John J. O'Leary, Earl J. Baugh, Stanley A. Szalwinski, Anthony R. Russo Kneeling: Gris Smith, Robert Smith, Wilson P Turnipseed, Paul A. Wilkerson

George W. McLeod 349th Pilot ‘Easy goin’ crew

Crew of E-Z Goin' after 7 Apr 45 mission to Buchen (left to right) Standing: Ralph E. Spada, Matthew Schipper, Alfred Collins, Paul Gerling Joe Carl Martin - Pilot, Antonio Picone, Henry Cervantes Kneeling: William E. Dudecz, Norman Larsen

Chowhound snapshot. Photo courtesy Hans Nauta