Photograph · 87 of 106

Doors open

3 May 1945

Looking down through open B-17 bomb bay doors at white sacks falling onto a field, labeled May 3 1945 drop zone Utrecht — May 3, 1945. Drop zone Utrecht. Lower bomb bay doors open. The white on the field is flour, tinned meat, chocolate, powdered milk — the cargo a bomb bay was not built to carry. The database titles this print 5-3-45 Chowhound #3, the group’s own number for the morning.Family collection · 95th BG database — 44-6838 · Zoom to read the handwriting

Looking down through open B-17 bomb bay doors at white sacks falling onto a field, labeled May 3 1945 drop zone Utrecht — May 3, 1945. Drop zone Utrecht. Lower bomb bay doors open. The white on the field is flour, tinned meat, chocolate, powdered milk — the cargo a bomb bay was not built to carry. The database titles this print 5-3-45 Chowhound #3, the group’s own number for the morning.Family collection · 95th BG database — 44-6838 · Zoom to read the handwriting

What is visible

Looking down through open B-17 bomb bay doors at white sacks falling onto a field, labeled May 3 1945 drop zone Utrecht

In the book

Chapter 12Utrecht

Also

Mission 29 — Utrecht — Lage Weide

In the record

95th BG database — 44-6838

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Family Collection. Doors open, 3 May 1945. The Spirit of Martinez.

https://www.spiritofmartinez.com/archive/utrechtdrop

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