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Operation Manna Delftware Pendant

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 84/C/787

This small delftware pendant was made by Dutch ceramist Plateelbakkerij Schoonhoven. Featuring a young woman with a basket and an aircraft dropping parcels overhead, it appears to depict the events of Operation Manna.

Operation Manna Delftware Pendant | 84/C/787

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

Recorded interview with Flying Officer Joseph Sudell, 30 January 2019

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-4822

Joseph Sudell served as a navigator in Lancaster bomber aircraft at the end of the Second World War. He participated in air attacks on Dresden and Operations Manna and Exodus.

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Recording of an account of Bomber Command and Pathfinder Force operations, circa 1970

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/72

Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie gives an account of Bomber Command operations through the Second World War, with particular reference to the significance of Pathfinder Force operations to the bomber offensive.

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Recording of interviews with Wing Commander Patrick and Flight Lieutenant Greening, circa 1970

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/17

Recordings of two interviews, the first with Wing Commander Patrick, who flew as a Pathfinder with Bomber Command, the other with Flight Lieutenant Greening who also served with the Pathfinders.

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