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Marking was not changed since 1931.
It is a green triangle with a black border.
Superimposed on this has been a
representation of the Arabic word "Jaish", for army, in red.
Version 2005_08_10
14 pics of aircraft
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No.1 (Army Cooperation) Squadron based at Mosul, Hinaidi and elsewhere May 1941 |
| Hawker Nisr |
 # 28 |
| No.2 (Army Cooperation) Squadron |
| Gloster Gladiator Mk.I |
 # ? |
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No.5 (Army Cooperation) Squadron based at Al-Rashyd (Baghdad), May 1941 |
| Breda Ba.65bis |
 # 108 |
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Sonderkommando Junck ...the Luftwaffe undercover detachment supporting the revolt against the British in Iraq in 1941. Al Rashyd (Baghdad), mid-May 1941 |
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| A Staffel-strength unit of Bf 110D-3s ( ex-4.Staffel / ZerstörerGeschwader 76 )was committed | ||
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These were machines from 4./ZG76 which had hastily received Iraqi
markings upon their arrival in Mosul in mid-May 1941. After only two weeks of combat, the Germans departed for Syria by the end of May having lost no less than a dozen Bf 110s during their involvement in the Arab country. Some of these planes had a RLM 79 / RLM 78 desert camouflage scheme, but others operated in Iraq in their standard continental 'Grau'' scheme. There are two different profiles to find on the net, one for each version: |
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| Lucky me found these rare B&W pictures again, which I thought had lost in a Systemcrash... | ||
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He 111H from Kampfgeschwader 4 'General Wever' |
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 (5J+AC) |
 (5J+GM) |
 (5J+JM) |
| Ju 90 | ||
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Found this two photos on Ebay... "Fliegerhorst Catania 26. 5. 1941 Eine unserer Ju 90 wird in den Irak überführt" "Airfield Catania 26. 5. 1941 One of our Ju 90 goes to the Irak" |
| Aircraft of Unknown Units |
| EX-British planes | |
| De Havilland DH.84 Dragon | De Havilland Puss Moths |
 # 22 (The model is a nearly similar DH.98, though) |
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| Italian planes | |
| They were obtained from Italy before the war. | |
| FIAT Cr.42 FALCO | Sm-79B Sparviero |
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 # 100 In 1938 the Iraqi Air Force purchased four Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79B bombers. They were all destroyed during the anti-British uprising in Iraq in May 1941. |
| American planes |
| Northrop A-17 (Douglas 8A-4) |
 # 141 |
| Note: |
| The arabic side letters are just numbers, above the "normal" smaller numbers. |
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