Bad Penny's fly above the Bad Penny book

On April 29, 2010, school children from Canada and Holland celebrated an important moment in history by connecting via Skype to mark the 65th anniversary of the test flight of Bad Penny, the first Lancaster to drop food in Holland near the end of WWII. Because the flight was successful and Bad Penny came back safe and sound, the 10-day Operation Manna mission, dreamed up by the Allies to help save Dutch lives from starvation due to a long Nazi occupation and a brutally cold winter, could begin in earnest. Over ten days, tens of thousands of food bundles were dropped and during that time the Nazis signed a peace treaty.