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Assyrian refugee women and children at an RAF aircraft door, Mosul, 1933

Place: Mosul · today Iraq
Date: 1933

Assyrian women in headscarves and long dresses, with children, crowd round the passenger door of a Vickers Victoria of No. 70 Squadron at Mosul airfield during the 1933 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 refugee women and children at an RAF aircraft door, Mosul, 1933

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