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Assyrian refugees inside an RAF aircraft during the 1933 Mosul airlift

Place: Mosul · today Iraq
Date: 1933

Assyrian women and children seated inside a Vickers Victoria of No. 70 Squadron RAF, photographed between Mosul and Hinaidi during the 1933 airlift of refugees after the Simele massacre.

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Internet Archive (subject assyrian-archive; scans from S. S. Solomon, The Indestructible Assyrians, 2010)

Assyrian refugees inside an RAF aircraft during the 1933 Mosul airlift

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