Operation Chowhound: The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII

by Stephen Dando-Collins

Book Overview

Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF, dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland. It took raw courage to fly on Operation Chowhound, as American aircrews never knew when the German AAA might open fire on them or if Luftwaffe fighters might...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113727963X
• ISBN13: 9781137279637
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 10.1"