Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Iraq is the lesser third of Sir Henry's command; like Persia, it is an occupied, but theoretically independent, nation under a regency and seven-year-old King Feisal II. The British have more enemies than friends among the 4,500,000 Iraqi; it took British bombs and troops to suppress a brief, pro-Nazi regime in Iraq last year. In Iraq and in adjoining central Persia is the bulk of Sir Henry's Tenth Army, poised to turn northward if the Germans come down from the Caucasus, west if they approach from the Mediterranean and Egypt...
Later he fled to Syria, from Syria to Bagdad, capital of Iraq. After participating in the Iraqi coup this spring, he escaped to Iran. When British and Russians occupied that country the Grand Mufti disappeared...
...Baron is now getting his chance to work in the Middle East. He is said recently to have been invaluable to Fritz Grobba, roving Nazi diplomat, in stirring up trouble among the Iraqi. Constantly expressing his Hitler loyalty, Baron von Oppenheim raises his hand and heils even when he is talking on the telephone alone in his room. It happens that the little Baron Max is a Jew whom the Führer raised to Honorary Aryan status...
...admit later that he did not like his first taste of targetry at all. He scrambled out of the car, he said, "faster than I ever got out of anything in my life." In 130-degree heat, which made the metal of motorized units untouchable, the British broke the Iraqi siege of Habbania and drove them right to Feluja on the Euphrates River. There the Iraqi picked positions across the river from the British and dominating the only good bridge leading to Bagdad, 40 miles farther along...
...dawn next day, the British dropped Arabic proclamations asking the Iraqi to surrender at once-or else. After a few minutes the British applied the or else. It consisted of a severe bombing assault, a hail of artillery, and three ground attacks-one straight across the bridge, one which crossed the river farther up, and an airborne assault which landed in the desert behind the Iraqi, cutting off their retreat to Bagdad. By week's end, with the help of Curtiss P-40 Tomahawks (fighters) and Martin 1675 (bombers), the British had the situation well enough in hand...