On 4/10/23 07:54, a425couple wrote:
On 4/10/23 01:28, DAN wrote:
a425couple wrote:
In 1941 my dad found himself in Basra Iraq as a signaller attached to >>>>> the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) relieving RAF Habbaniya.I'm just drawing a blank on where the Italians were
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?
OK, now I have found and read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_War
And in continuation,
example of Palestinians never missing a chance to make a
bad decision:
"While Rashid Ali and his supporters were in alliance with the Fascist
Regime in Italy[160] the war demonstrated that Iraq's independence was
at best conditional on British approval of the government's
actions.[citation needed] Rashid Ali and the Mufti of Jerusalem fled to >Persia, then to Turkey, then to Italy, and finally to Berlin, Germany,
where Ali was welcomed by Hitler as head of the Iraqi >government-in-exile.[citation needed]
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