Comments on: 10 Special Facts About Amsterdam In WWII https://www.toursinamsterdam.com/amsterdam-in-wwii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amsterdam-in-wwii Tours, Tickets, Attractions & Things To Do Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:46:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Randy Lonsway https://www.toursinamsterdam.com/amsterdam-in-wwii/#comment-12420 Thu, 15 May 2025 16:49:42 +0000 http://toursinamsterdam.com/?p=3700#comment-12420 In reply to DENVER COOK.

Just read your comment. Thank you. My uncle, Louis Eugene “Gene” Lonsway was a tail gunner on the Liberty Belle in the 549th Squadron of the 385th. My dad flew off carriers in the Pacific as an aviation radioman. He kept all of his brother’s letters and I have them. Great reading, and I am attempting to make a book out of it to tell their respective stories. My Uncle Gene survived the war and made a career of the Air Force. He passed in 1993. My father served at Leyte, Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He died in 2012.
My best regards,
Randy

]]> By: DENVER COOK https://www.toursinamsterdam.com/amsterdam-in-wwii/#comment-2953 Wed, 06 Jul 2022 22:57:30 +0000 http://toursinamsterdam.com/?p=3700#comment-2953 During Operation Chow Hound I piloted a B-17 that dropped a pallet filled with C & K rations into the central square of the city of Amsterdam. Unlike other photos of planes scattering food loosely out of open bomb bays our mission was too make a precise drop of the pallet with all the food intact. This required extreme accuracy. We did it and considered it just another bomb mission. We were given a special corridor to fly on our bomb run with the expectation that a cease fire had been negotiated for that airspace. We were expected to fly at 400 feet at the slowest speed without stalling. Halfway down the bomb run my waist gunners informed me we were being shot at by the German soldiers. I told them to sit on their flack vests. I completed the bomb run dropped the food in the center of the square and headed home. We were awarded a combat mission after bullet holes were found in the aircraft. Many years later, while on a vacation cruise to Alaska, I met a woman who was in Amsterdam at that time. When I told her of the food bombing her reply was “Thank you We Were Starving” After all these years of treating the flight as just anther mission I now realize we were saving live instead destroying lives. It has had an impact on my life. I was with the 385th BG 551st BS out of Great Ashfield in England. The tail marking of our group was a red and white checkerboard pattern. Since then I have been told there is a memorial in Amsterdam of a model B-17 with a red and white tail..

Amsterdan

]]> By: Oosterveen https://www.toursinamsterdam.com/amsterdam-in-wwii/#comment-1337 Sat, 22 May 2021 00:05:32 +0000 http://toursinamsterdam.com/?p=3700#comment-1337 Anything on a bombing in amsterdam-oost during the war?
A bomb from an English plane that was hit and dropped the bomb in a residential neighborhood,the edge of town.
(Brandbom)

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