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1941 IRAQ: RAF beleaguered on airfield rout of rebels and return of Regent of Iraq Crown Prince Abd
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1:21Now PlayingDate: 19th June 1941
Location: HABBANIYA AERODROME, IRAQ
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION - HABBANIYAH SIEGE: FIRST PICTURES
IRAQ; Habbaniya Aerodrome
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CU British Tommy looking at sign post:- "London Bagdad" etc. "R.A.F. Habbaniya." LV pan desert airdrome of Habbaniya. CU two British Tommies firing machine guns. Pan shot German plane in air. GV bomb exploding on airdrome. GV troops in sun hats in shade taking cover. CU army type in sun hat. GV Messerschmitt bomber machine gunning village. GV Hurricane chasing Messerschmitt. GV village and smoke from Messerschmitt. pan of troops guarding position along river and troops getting into row boat. GV explosion on dyke. GV break in dyke and prisoners filling sand bags. SV prisoner with pick pan to prisoners carrying sand bags. SV prisoners emptying sand bags into river. SV Captain Roosevelt and Major-General Clark watching prisoners at work. Roosevelt wearing dark glasses.
Close Regent of Iraq Crown Prince Abd al-Il�� h speaking to ministers and military officials. CU Regent in military uniform minus hat. SV Regent with ministers and military officials walking towards camera and smoking a cigarette;
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Crown Prince Abd al-Il�� h of Iraq speaking with soldiers; lose Crown Prince Abd al-Il�� h of Iraq walking and looking towards camera
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