Damn this OCD morning coffe stuff…..
I have located a map of Basra from 1941.
About 1½ miles south of the airport, there is a location called “RAF works and buildings. Written with smaller letters it says “Slipway”.
Just south of that, you have the “memorial to the missing”.
The location is almost 100% identical when compared to the Google earth. Notice the questionmark shaped inlet on GE (not the posted image), and compare with the inlet on the map.
I call a hit!
Maybe Im just imagining things, but browsing Google earth I came across this building, that looks pretty much like the hangar on the original picture. Its even about the same distance from the river.
We know the memorial was removed in 1997, but that whold area looks kinda abandoned.
30°33’14.49″N 47°48’19.32″E
This image might possibly be from the same base, as the caption is “British seaplanes awaiting flight near Basra in the late 1930s”
I seem to recognise the building in the foreground, from the aerial picture.
The memorial is the Basra war memorial in Iraq.
The memorial is no longer at the same location, as In 1997, Saddam Hussein ordered the memorial to be moved from the city to a remote location in the desert, half an hour outside Basra.
You can see the hangars behind the memorial.
Caption: The winners were 203 Squadron.
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