Operation Manna by Ivan Berryman. (AP) PER114B0487AP. Operation Manna by Ivan Berryman. During the years of the German occupation of Holland in World War II, more than 20,000 Dutch civilians perished through starvation and lack of basic provisions. Operation Manna was set in motion on Sunday, 29th April 1945 when Lancasters of the Royal Air Force began the first of 2,835 sorties, dropping 6,672 tons of food, to relieve the crisis in the Netherlands. These humanitarian missions continued until
Sir John Tover
based at Dallachy in Scotland
HMS Hood is followed by the destroyer HMS Express
Reids was Black Roger and Sharmans was Black Death
First to Fight by David Pentland
Manned by 140 troops of the 24th Regiment
Trident by Robert Barbour
520 was undoubtedly the best French fighter of WW II
Bismarck heels to port as she is struck by a torpedo in the Stbd
Nicknamed the butcher bird
HMS Nymphe by W Fred Mitchell
He is depicted here in his Ju87 lining up for an attack amongst the snowy landscape of the Eastern Front