Word: mohammerah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Persia's new Navy consists of two small gunboats mounting four-inch, three-inch and anti-aircraft guns plus four smaller gunboats with three-inch guns. Last week, proudly flying Persia's leonine standard,* the Navy steamed out of Naples, bound for the Persian port of Mohammerah. Officers and crews of the six new ships are 100% Persian, smartly uniformed and painstakingly trained at the Italian Leghorn Naval Academy. As one Dictator to another, Benito Mussolini was delighted to build and sell a navy to the "King of Kings" who began his career as a soldier, became...
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