HILL, Roderic.

£650 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Baghdad Air Mail. First edition, scarce in the jacket. This study by the future wartime commander-in-chief of Fighter Command gives "a fascinating insight into the development of the RAF's desert air mail service between Cairo and Baghdad … [and] provides a detailed historical account of one man's perspective of operating and living in the Middle East" (Bridge). Wing Commander (later Air Chief Marshal Sir) Roderic Hill (1894-1954) was Officer Commanding 45 Squadron, based at RAF Hinaidi, Egypt, which in the 1920s operated the Vickers Vernon around the Middle East (Hill also touches on the new Airco DH.9As that were coming in to service). He was stationed in Iraq from October 1924 to September 1926.

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