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Assyrian refugees waiting on the airfield for the RAF airlift, Mosul

Place: Mosul · today Iraq
Date: 1930s

Assyrian refugee women and children sit on the airfield with their bundles beside men of the Iraq Levies, with the Vickers Victoria J8928 of No. 70 Squadron parked behind, during the evacuation of Assyrian refugees from Mosul to Baghdad.

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Imperial War Museums (The service of Air Vice-Marshal Gerard Combe in the Royal Air Force, 1923-1946)

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Assyrian refugees waiting on the airfield for the RAF airlift, Mosul

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