Wwi British Mesopotamia Campaign: Britain's Surrender at Al Kut
In May 2003, US Navy Seabees held a somber ceremony at a British military cemetery in Al Kut, Iraq where they turned over 420 graves to the British government. The graves contained the remains of World War I British and Indian soldiers who died while fighting the Ottoman Turks at Al Kut during the British Mesopotamian Campaign. The British War Graves Commission had maintained the cemetery for decades until 1991, when Great Britain joined the US in Operation DESERT STORM. In retaliation for that participation, Saddam Hussein's Baath regime desecrated the cemetery and turned it into a city dump. After US Marines liberated Al Kut during Operatio…
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- ISBN: 978-1-288-39603-0
- EAN: 9781288396030
- Produktnummer: 39335464
- Verlag: BiblioScholar
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 38 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.5 cm 95 g
- Gewicht: 95
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