bbc documentary china Royal Air Force Habbaniya IRAQ - Jewel of the Desert

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‘RAF Habbaniya, Iraq, Jewel of the Desert’, Tells the story of the part the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force played in forming and maintaining peace in the Kingdom of Iraq, from 1915 to the final bloody end of the Hashemite Monarchy in 1959.

Starting with Allied Mesopotamian Campaign against the Ottoman Turks during the First World War and the Arab Revolt, aided by Laurence of Arabia, that liberated of the Arab Nations.

In 1920 Lord Trenchard - Father of the RAF - proved that inaccessible and sparsely populated countries like Iraq could be policed from the air and subsequently in 1937, RAF Habbaniya - the largest RAF Station in the World – opened, this was Trenchard’s dream of ‘Air Policing’ come true; constructed on the banks of the River Euphrates, 55 miles (90km) west of Baghdad, it housed over 10,000 occupants.

Built with every modern technological advance and comfort of the time; opulent gardens, tinkling fountains, tree lined avenues, palatial buildings, a hospital, swimming pools, cinemas and even a race course this was the RAF’s “Super Posting”.

With the onset of World War Two this “Jewel in the Desert” became a flying school, and in 1942, without warning, a Nazi backed uprising threatened to kick Britain out of Iraq and hand Iraq’s Oil Supplies to Germany.

RAF Habbaniya was besieged and the fragile training aircraft put to war alongside RAF armoured cars and Levies, locally recruited ground troops, in a desperate struggle; first against the Iraqi Nationalist army and air force, then the Luftwaffe and finally the Regia Aeronautica.
The outcome of the siege and many other dramatic events in RAF Habbaniya’s history are recounted by RAF Veterans and illustrated with previously unseen film from the RAF Museum Archive, British Pathé newsreels, Imperial War Museum and the veteran’s own films and photographs.

This little-known story builds a fascinating, and sometimes violent, picture of the 45-year British military presence in Iraq - through peace, two World Wars, the Cold War and the abrupt and bloody coup d'état that ended the RAF’s 23-year occupation at Habbaniya in 1959.

bbc documentary china Royal Air Force Habbaniya IRAQ - Jewel of the Desert
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