The Day Bombers Dropped Food Instead of Bombs

They knew the war was over. It ended May 8th. The people were starving to death. Eisenhower and Churchill said, “We have to do something.” B7s and English Lancaster bombers put in plywood floors in the Bombay. We loaded them with Krations food. Instead of flying at 20 to 25,000 ft, we came in at 200 ft. Can you imagine how loud the Germans agreed not to fire on us? When I hit the coast, I waved and the German waved back to me. They said some of the Germans had just pistols and they were firing them. I don’t know. But when we came in there and dropped the food on the rooftops, they had, “God bless you boys. Thank you.” It was a beautiful way to end the war.

At the end of World War II, with the war officially over on May 8th, millions in Europe were starving. In a rare act of compassion, American B-17s and British Lancaster bombers replaced bombs with food. Flying dangerously low at just 200 feet, crews risked their lives to drop rations to the desperate people below. German soldiers agreed not to fire — some even waved as the planes passed. As food rained down, civilians shouted messages of gratitude: “God bless you boys. Thank you.

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42 comments

  3. You all do realize that these men you all refer to as "The Greatest Generation" (BTW, I agree), almost to a man, were disciplined by having their butts busted. Also, zero school shootings.

  7. The picture of the starving is wrong ! Those are KZ prisoners .. who expierenced hell !

    Sorry .. picture is just not correct , offcourse they were starving . My father and my Familie ate the peels of the potato as soup

  10. The Berlin Airlift was this event he's talking about and The Fat Electrician has the best video to explain it. I could never type out the justice these guys deserve.

  13. Churchill starved millions to death in India. Hopefully he's burnin in hell with Hitler, Stallin and Eisnhower etc

  15. like in the movie inglorious bastards.
    officer hans landa said he knew the war was over. you know when you are beat down.

  22. Grandfather brought 2lbs of Moose jerky to eat on the steps of Berlin Being a proud Native Canadian …..He made it to Holland And seen the people there starving He gave his 2 lbs And 2 extra rations. 8 years later While back in Canada He received a painting from the man via mail It was a painting of Grandfather in the doorstep of the house On the back in Dutch "Our blessing"

  27. Just imagine being one of the hungry people, suffering from years of war and suddenly the ‘enemy’ flies right above your head giving you food. God what a feeling that would be!

  28. They're Lucky that part was over in May. Just a couple months later the nukes were ready and Japan got those delivered

  34. Our greatest generation was naive enough to put their lives on the line for “freedom”? You mean corporate greed, right? The MEN you are so proud of were sheep. God bless their souls but it’s 2025, use your heads

  37. Greatest generation ever yet our politicians take there pictures and busts down why they are now trying to teach that Churchill was a bad man and a war mongering person witch is a joke they had a world war to deal with what do you want him to do give the Germans a bunch of flowers ffs jokers go's bless all who died it the wars for us to be free I will never forget ✝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✝️✝️

  39. "A beautiful way to end the war"? Especially after the bombing of civilians in German cities like Dresden, for example. You're all mad.

  42. After WW2 when Berlin was cut off by the soviet troops (railway and roads were closed) the Americans and British forces also helped getting food to west and east Berlin. In German these carrier and bomber planes are called "Rosinenbomber" which translates to "Raisinbomber" 🙂

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