Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally the enemies brushed in Iraq. First-line German planes, Heinkel bombers and Messerschmitt fighters hurried to attack the British at their Habbannia airport. German cadres of officers headed Iraqi troops for new infantry attacks near Basra. The British counter-bombed the Luftwaffe bases. The Fleet Air Arm planes flew 160 miles up the Tigris to bomb oil tanks at Amarah. R.A.F. fliers caught convoys of French motor trucks carrying Arab volunteers from Syria to Iraq...
Grobba showed up in Bagdad. He persuaded the then King, Ghazi I, to send some young officers to military war games in Germany. They returned to Iraq amazed. In 1938 he had 50 German officers invited to Iraqui war games. They stayed in Iraq. Next he arranged to have some "research expeditions" sent from Germany to Iraq. They stayed in Iraq. In October 1938, some Arabs attacked and fired the main British pipelines from the Iraq fields; when this was found to be a Grobba job, he had to flee to Saudi Arabia...
...simple then to engineer the El-Gailani revolt. Without firing a shot, Grobba thus won the first skirmish in the Battle of the Middle East. Last week he was out in front, getting the German Army in touch with native soldiers not only of Iraq, but also of Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia...
Battle for a Battlefield. But the Battle of the Middle East was much more than a nationalist movement. It was a strategic contest of the first importance, in which time was a crucial factor. The immediate stake was the oil of Iraq, and last week's scrimmages suggested that the British might not have time or strength systematically to destroy the wells and refineries before the Germans arrived in force. The secondary stake was the Suez Canal...
Standard and Shell too have planned a line from Louisiana to North Carolina. About as long as Iraq's famous line, it would run 1,262 miles and carry up to 72,000 barrels a day, enough to fill half the gasoline needs of the five Southern States to which it would run. Since 17% of the U.S.'s needs for aviation gasoline is centered in those States, President Roosevelt tried to speed the line by writing a letter (for transmittal to the Georgia Legislature) to his old enemy, Governor Eugene Talmadge, who tried to start a Grass...