Saturday, July 15, 2017

Westland Wapiti Mark IIA, J9409, of No. 30 Squadron RAF in flight over the city of Mosul, Iraq, 11th May 1932.


That minaret in the background is the famous one that Daesh just blew to smithereens.


5 comments:

  1. What a shame the carnage they've done to themselves and others.

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  2. The British made all of the mistakes. We simply repeated them.

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  3. The Brit's later used those same aircraft to gas the Iraqis. Mustard gas, Phosgene, and Churchill planned it. ---Ray

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    1. Germ warfare would have worked better, and there was a time that the Brits were a bit tougher on third world types than they are now.

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  4. My point exactly---Ray

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