BATTLING the BOLSHEVIKS

One of the newly formed RAF’s first operations after World War One saw it supporting anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia, including the use of Short 184 floatplane sorties over the Caspian Sea With an interested crowd of onlookers, Short 184 N9085 is suspended under a crane in the harbour of the Caspian Sea port of Petrovsk. VIA ANDREW THOMAS After the armistice on 11 November 1918, the Caspian port of Baku was occupied by British troops to prevent occupation by the