Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caucasus, Iran, Iraq and Syria may well prove to be the great battlefield of 1942. It is difficult to predict whether any particular phase of the war will be decisive, but obviously when and if the Germans strike out for the oil in the Caucasus and the oil in Iran and seek to attack our Middle Eastern position, this region will become the main theater...
Iran. Eventually, unless Hitler changes the Allies' plans, the heaviest traffic may get to Russia by way of Iraq, Iran and the Caspian Sea. It was reported from Ankara last week that more than 70 ships are plying between the U.S. and the Middle East with materials for joint British-Russian defense, that they have begun to unload at the rate of a ship...
...boasted last week that he had deprived Russia of the use of 15,000 airplanes, 22,000 tanks and 27,000 guns. The present supply lines to Russia are not, of a caliber to replace one-tenth of such losses this winter. But if the lines-particularly the Iran-Iraq lines-are not erased, Russia may gradually grow stronger rather than weaker...
...western desert, the R.A.F. attacked a caravan of vehicles, destroying considerable supplies of gasoline. Too late, the attackers learned they fought their own troops. . . . Near Bagdad, in Iraq, the R.A.F. actually attacked British ground forces. Such episodes contributed to the flat statement by one high-ranking British officer in the Middle East cam paign: 'I will not go into action again unless I am able to give direct orders to the air squadrons allocated to my support...
...mission was reported preparing to visit Iraq to study a rail route for aid-to-Russia. This route, the eastern end of Kaiser Wilhelm's old Berlin-to-Bagdad dream, would require 100 miles of track, 4,500 freight cars, 200 locomotives, push U.S. railroads' equipment orders still farther back in the priorities queue...