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Here is a read only link to the Aerodrome Database - WhichAerodrome.xlsx. Up to date as of 1/5/2019. Catching up slowly - up to May 2019 now (Mar 2020).
Here are some "rules" for Which Aerodrome. These are based upon the original suggestions from the very first thread, and have a few additions. Also please be patient as when you are active others may be asleep.
 Thanks to Self Loading Bear for suggesting that we use a wiki. Which Aerodrome I Which Aerodrome II nvubu. 
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Which Aerodrome Mk III
That was quick Hippo. Iwakuni it is 
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You been taking Sabredog pills ? British Commonwealth Air Group, RAF 1315 Flight. This is some of the stuff they got up to - if I can get the size right. LFH
- You have Control You been taking Sabredog pills ? British Commonwealth Air Group, RAF 1315 Flight. This is some of the stuff they got up to - if I can get the size right. LFH
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I found a front-on image that looked the same, and took a flyer.
I'm breaking the rules a little here as there are two aerodromes, but there is a link between them - I also wanted to include the 2nd one if only for the hats.
So where are they? and what is the link?
edit: I'll add - Who are they?
I'm breaking the rules a little here as there are two aerodromes, but there is a link between them - I also wanted to include the 2nd one if only for the hats.
So where are they? and what is the link?
edit: I'll add - Who are they?
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Well done - although both machines are disguised as Iraqi, you can just about make out the Iraqi insignia under the wing on the Me 110
The 2nd image is Mosul rather than Baghdad - the swastika has been painted over. Just love the hats.
The mission lasted less than a month.
Here's a most interesting article on it, with images (in German)
Nazis über Bagdad - einestages
Over to you olympus.
The 2nd image is Mosul rather than Baghdad - the swastika has been painted over. Just love the hats.
The mission lasted less than a month.
Here's a most interesting article on it, with images (in German)
Nazis über Bagdad - einestages
Over to you olympus.
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"Hitler hatte von der Luftwaffe eine "heroische Geste" gegenüber seinen irakischen Waffenbrüdern gefordert."
Lit Tr - "The situation urgently calls for a futile heroic gesture to encourage our friends and we think you're just the very chap to lead it ..."
From the text, it seems Kommandant Junck wasn't very impressed with his assignment either.
From Tripod.com -
"By 1940 the Iraqi air force contained six air wings (planes were primarily of British and U.S. origin). In 1941, following the pro-Axis coup, the Iraqi armed forces faced an Allied intervention by predominantly British Commonwealth troops (mainly East Indians and Transjordanians); despite heavy numerical superiority and some meager assistance from the Vichy French in Syria as well as from a few German transport planes that supplied Iraq with some badly needed war materiel, the Iraqi armed forces were quickly routed. The Iraqi air force lost about 20 aircraft in the course of the brief struggle (out of a total of 56 that Iraq possessed at that time). A peace treaty very favourable to the Allies was immediately signed in the aftermath,
Followed soon after by the occupation of Persia as neatly described by John Masters in "Bugles and a Tiger." LFH
Lit Tr - "The situation urgently calls for a futile heroic gesture to encourage our friends and we think you're just the very chap to lead it ..."
From the text, it seems Kommandant Junck wasn't very impressed with his assignment either.
From Tripod.com -
"By 1940 the Iraqi air force contained six air wings (planes were primarily of British and U.S. origin). In 1941, following the pro-Axis coup, the Iraqi armed forces faced an Allied intervention by predominantly British Commonwealth troops (mainly East Indians and Transjordanians); despite heavy numerical superiority and some meager assistance from the Vichy French in Syria as well as from a few German transport planes that supplied Iraq with some badly needed war materiel, the Iraqi armed forces were quickly routed. The Iraqi air force lost about 20 aircraft in the course of the brief struggle (out of a total of 56 that Iraq possessed at that time). A peace treaty very favourable to the Allies was immediately signed in the aftermath,
Followed soon after by the occupation of Persia as neatly described by John Masters in "Bugles and a Tiger." LFH
