Iraq

IRAQ

Iraq Rebellion 1941 (Rashid Ali Coup)

                                   VICTORIES
NAME                    DESTROYED  PROBABLE  DAMAGED    OTHER        UNIT        COMMENTS

unknown                     1 [0+1]    -        -                    2 Squadron
unknown                     -          -        -         1          2 Squadron
unknown                     -          -        -         1          2 Squadron
unknown                     -          -        -         1          2 Squadron

Air-to-Air Victories

Date Unit Aircraft Pilot Victim Result Country
02.05.1941 2 Squadron Gladiator unknown Hawker Audax destroyed on the ground RAF
02.05.1941 2 Squadron Gladiator unknown Hawker Audax destroyed on the ground RAF
02.05.1941 2 Squadron Gladiator I unknown Airspeed Oxford destroyed on the ground RAF
04.05.1941 2 Squadron Gladiator unknown Vickers Wellington shared destroyed(a) RAF
(a) Shared with Anti-aircraft artillery.


Gloster Gladiator

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Gloster Gladiator, Royal Iraqi Air Force.


Sources & Literature
  1. Belcarz, Bartlomiej - Peczkowski, Robert: Gloster Gladiator, Monographie Lotnicze No. 24, AJ-Press, Gdansk, 1996.
  2. Dudgeon, Tony: The War That Never Was, Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1991.
  3. Hornát, Jiří: Gloster G.37, S.S.37 Gladiator, Sea Gladiator, part four, Letectví+kosmonautika, No. 24, 1994
  4. Lyman, Robert: Iraq 1941: The battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad, Campaign 165, Osprey Publishing, 2006.
  5. Nicolle, David C. - Gabr, Gabr Ali: Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955, Volume 7, The Arab Air Forces in Crisis, April 1941-December 1942, Middle East@War, Book 52, Helion & Company, 2023. ISBN: 978-1-804510-34-6
  6. Pejčoch, Ivo: Gloster Gladiator, edice Bojové legendy, Nakladatelství Jan Vašut, Praha 2008.
  7. Shores, Christopher: Dust Clouds in the Middle East, The Air War for East Africa, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Madagascar, 1940-1942, Grub Street, London, June 1, 1996.
  8. Shores, Christopher: Those Other Eagles: A Tribute To The British, Commonwealth And Free European Fighter Pilots Who Claimed Between Two And Four Victories In Aerial Combat, 1939 - 1982 (A Companion Volume to Aces High), Grub Street, London, October 3, 2004.
  9. Šnajdr, Miroslav: Gladiator a Sea Gladiator, part three, Historie a plastikové modelářství, No. 3, 2004.
  10. Aeroplane Monthly, September, October and November 1981.
  11. The Battle for Habbaniya - The forgotten war, http://www.raf.mod.uk/history_old/opsrep.html.
  12. The Iraqi Revolt, http://www.geocities.com/acrawford0/revolt.html.
  13. Iraqi Air Force Gladiators, http://www.geocities.com/acrawford0/iraqiair.html.
  14. Gustavsson, Håkan: Biplane Fighter Aces from the Second World War, http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/index.html.
  15. Gloster Gladiator, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Gladiator#Anglo-Iraqi_War.
  16. The Iraq Coup Attempt of 1941, the Mufti, and the Farhud, http://www.mideastweb.org/iraqaxiscoup.htm.

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