27 JANUARY
IRAQI VILLAGES AND CATTLE SUBJECTED TO PUNITIVE RAF BOMBING
[ 27 January 1923 ]
On 27 January 1923, after an RAF officer had been wounded in an ambush two miles north of the Iraqi town of Al Diwaniyah by insurgents opposing British rule, several nearby villages were selected for punitive bombing.
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