U.S. Army helicopter over Lake Habbaniyah, May 2008
Lake Habbaniyah (Arabic: بحيرة الحبانيةBuḥayrat al-Ḥabbāniya) is a lake located halfway between Ramadi and Fallujah near Al-Taqaddum (TQ) Air Base in Al Habbaniyah in Anbar Province, Iraq.[1]
It was the scene of action during the Rashid Ali rebellion Anglo-Iraqi War when the RAF trainee aircrew and troops stationed there effectively saw off the besieging Iraqi troops and subsequent German aerial attacks.[4]
^Duraid Adnan and Timothy Williams (23 August 2009). "Dancing by the Waves, Iraqis Forget War for a Day". New York Times. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
^Dudgeon, Mike (2010). "No. 4 SFTS and Raschad Ali's War - Iraq 1941". Journal of the Royal Air Force Historical Society (48). London: Royal Air Force Historical Society: 41. ISSN 1361-4231.
^Fairbairn, Tony (1991). Action stations overseas. Sparkford: P. Stephens. p. 82. ISBN 1-85260-319-4.
^Dudgeon, Mike (2010). "No. 4 SFTS and Raschad Ali's War - Iraq 1941". Journal of the Royal Air Force Historical Society (48). London: Royal Air Force Historical Society: 47. ISSN 1361-4231.
^"Iraq." World Geography: Understanding a Changing World, ABC-CLIO, 2018, worldgeography2.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1121196. Accessed 10 Apr. 2018.
External links
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