Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rating injured, the British reported, in an action with a dual purpose: 1) to cripple Axis bases from which attacks can be launched on British convoys; 2) to smash one spearhead of a momentarily expected Axis thrust toward Suez and the oil fields of the Caucasus and Iraq...
...hard going and easy to defend-if, after Hitler's ceaseless diplomatic pressure, Turkey still chose to defend herself.* More likely, Hitler would strike toward the Caucasus through Russia, would by-pass or edge along western Turkey and drive through Syria toward the oil of Iran and Iraq. And very likely he would blast down the Mediterranean toward Suez, whose capture would speed him toward joining the Japanese in the Indian Ocean...
...Allies were hastily preparing their own rival program. Most of the thousands of warplanes exported by Britain last year had been sent to Libya and the Middle East. The British were pouring huge funds for defense projects into Syria, Palestine and Iraq...
Married. Pamela Wavell, oldest of the three daughters of General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell; and Lieut. Francis Humphrys, son of Lieut. Colonel Sir Francis Humphrys, onetime British Ambassador to Iraq; in Cairo...
...first advised Lady MacRobert that her son, Sir Alasdair, 25, had crashed in England. The second told her that son Sir Roderic, 26, had been shot down in Iraq. The third reported the loss of son Sir Iain, 24, who was known as "the perfect Coastal Command pilot." With no more sons to give to her country, Lady MacRobert sent Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair a check for ?25,000 to buy a bomber. "It is my wish," she said, "to make-a mother's immediate reply in a way that I know would be my boys' reply...