Media item

Symbolical commemoration of the food dropping '45 in The Hague

Week number 55-19

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
00:51
Publication date:
29 April 1955
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER551-HRE0000CF2C

A formation of Lancaster bomber of teh RAF flies over The Hague and drops flowers and pamphlets. The flight is meant as a commemoration of the food dropping during WWII. Archive footage: food droppings 1945.