Operation Manna

Remembering the RAF's food drops over Holland

On 29 April 1945 the RAF launched ‪Operation Manna to deliver food and supplies to the starving Dutch people. The mission was launched in the last days of the Second World War after German occupation and the consequences of War in Europe had left the country without food or provisions.

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1 May 2020

How the RAF helped a Derbyshire town bolster its flood defences

In our second blog to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Manna, we take a look at one of the more recent humanitarian aid missions undertaken by the RAF. Record rainfall last August had left a dam in Derbyshire in…

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29 April 2020

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of Operation Manna

Seventy-five years ago today a group of young pilots and their crews began a series of daring raids which saved a starving nation. The Operation Manna food drops over the Netherlands became one of the first humanitarian…

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Operation Manna

Remembering the RAF's food drops over Holland

How the RAF helped a Derbyshire town bolster its flood defences

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of Operation Manna

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