Sir – Your readers may not have heard of a recent documentary film maker produced for Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire by Electric Egg Ltd of Lincoln and directed by Steven Hatton.

To my knowledge, Into the Wind was the first of his documentaries about Bomber Command.

This was widely distributed and seen by many worldwide who have been trying to persuade our British Prime Minister and Government for more than 10 years to award us a campaign medal, without any success to date. My MP, Nicola Blackwood has done her best to do this for us for the last five years and promises to continue our drive with ministers and appropriate select parliamentary committees after she was re-selected as my MP on May 7 this year.

Last Sunday, Steven Hatton emailed me to say that there is a new, free-to-view on-line documentary Memories of Manna which tells the story of Operation Manna through the eyes of the recipients and of those who took part in the air.

In 1945, with much of Holland cut off and food supplies at critically low levels, Royal Air Force Bomber Command, alongside the USAAF (Operation Chowhound) dropped food and medical supplies to the starving Dutch.

Aviation Heritage has also released the second Bomber Command documentary this week, which again will be free to view online.

It is called Exodus and describes the efforts made by Bomber Command Lancasters and USAAFE bomber aircraft to repatriate thousands of POWs scattered throughout Europe following VE Day in May 1945 back into UK airfields.

Whether readers are in favour or not of a Bomber Command campaign medal, I think they will find the story of Operation Manna as shown in this film to be of compelling interest.

The link is https://vimeo.com/123499725 to see the documentary.

Jim Wright
Abingdon