n 4/9/23 08:41, Keith Willshaw wrote:
In 1941 the only meaningful way the UK could strike back at Germany was
by bombing,
In 1941 my dad found himself in Basra Iraq as a signaller attached toI'm just drawing a blank on where the Italians were
the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) relieving RAF Habbaniya. Here occcured the last biplane air war in the west with RAF Gloucester
Gladiators defearing the Italian CR-42's
Do you know where those Italian CR-42's had flown from?
In 1941 my dad found himself in Basra Iraq as a signaller attached toI'm just drawing a blank on where the Italians were
the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) relieving RAF Habbaniya. Here
occcured the last biplane air war in the west with RAF Gloucester
Gladiators defearing the Italian CR-42's
Do you know where those Italian CR-42's had flown from?
based and what they might have been trying to do.
a425couple wrote:
In 1941 my dad found himself in Basra Iraq as a signaller attached toI'm just drawing a blank on where the Italians were
the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) relieving RAF Habbaniya. Here
occcured the last biplane air war in the west with RAF Gloucester
Gladiators defearing the Italian CR-42's
Do you know where those Italian CR-42's had flown from?
based and what they might have been trying to do.
They flew out of Mosul.
On 4/10/23 01:28, DAN wrote:
a425couple wrote:
In 1941 my dad found himself in Basra Iraq as a signaller attached toI'm just drawing a blank on where the Italians were
the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) relieving RAF Habbaniya. Here >>>> occcured the last biplane air war in the west with RAF Gloucester
Gladiators defearing the Italian CR-42's
Do you know where those Italian CR-42's had flown from?
based and what they might have been trying to do.
They flew out of Mosul.
OK, so the Italians in 1941 had a military airbase
in northern Iraq, close to Turkey and Syria.
Why? What military actions were they trying to
support?
Do you know where those Italian CR-42's had flown from?I'm just drawing a blank on where the Italians were
based and what they might have been trying to do.
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