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Recording of an interview with Mrs Joke de Groot-Folmer

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC76/4

Interview with Mrs Joke de Groot-Folmer, who was actively involved in the Dutch underground organisation through which downed Allied airmen were returned to England during the Second World War.

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Recording of an interview with Mr W G Grotenberg, part two, 1970

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/69

Interview with Mr W G Grotenberg, a Dutch resistance fighter who recalls his experiences as a concentration camp prisoner in Holland and Germany.

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Recording of an interview with Mr W G Grotenberg, part one, 1970

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/18

Interview with Mr W.G. Grotenberg, who lived in Holland throughout the German occupation and was an active member of a Dutch Underground network concerned with the hiding of Jewish people.

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Operation Manna Decorative Tile

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1945, London, Hangar Five, 1987/1402/C

From the winter of 1944 to 1945 the Netherlands suffered from famine conditions. In the closing days of the war, a truce was arranged with occupying German forces to allow aircraft from the RAF and US Army Air Force to drop food to the starving population. Between 29 April and 7 May, 11,000 tonnes of food was delivered, saving many lives.

A woman and child wave, standing next to barbed wire, wave at Allied aircraft dropping supplies, RAF Museum

Commemorative Cigarettes

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1941, London, Hangar One, 80/C/1124

In an effort to raise morale, RAF aircraft would occasionally drop items that had become unobtainable in occupied countries.

Orange paper carton of cigarettes with W and crown motif, © RAF Museum

Photograph of an Avro Lancaster Mk I (JE-C) of No. 195 Squadron dropping supplies over the Netherlands as part of Operation Manna, 1945

Photographs, In Storage, P007095

An RAF Lancaster of No. 195 Squadron, having swapped its usual payload of bombs for food, delivers essential supplies to grateful Dutch civilians.

Civilians cheer an aircraft dropping supplies, © Royal Air Force Museum / u00a9 RAF Museum