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Assyrian refugees' baggage weighed for the RAF airlift, Mosul, 1933

Place: Mosul · today Iraq
Date: 1933

Assyrian refugee women and children wait beside British airmen as their bundled belongings are weighed on a tripod scale before boarding an RAF aircraft at Mosul, during the evacuation of Assyrian refugees to Baghdad by air.

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

Unknown (Combe collection) · IWM Non Commercial Licence

Assyrian refugees' baggage weighed for the RAF airlift, Mosul, 1933

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