Operation Cedar
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Project Cedar (also known as Operation CedarScript error: No such module "Unsubst"., short for "Civilian Emergency Defence Aid to Russia"[1]) was a World War II project to deliver short-range aircraft from the United States to the USSR via Abadan, Iran in the Persian Gulf.[2]
The project was initiated before the United States' entry into the war,[1] a base was established on Abadan Island in March 1942. Oil tankers, returning from delivering oil to the United States, would take Bell P-39, Curtiss P-40, and Douglas A-20 parts to Abadan, where they were assembled into aircraft and flown to USSR. The 82nd Air Depot Group was part of Project Cedar.[2] Head of the project on the Soviet side was Leonid Ivanovich Zorin.[3]
Another similarly secret operation, Project 19, was set up in Gura[1] Eritrea to repair RAF aircraft.[4][5][6]
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- ↑ "Project 19 - US repair base for British aircraft in Eritrea ", American Military History site
- ↑ "Boeing & Douglas: A History of Customer Service", Boeing.com
- ↑ "Episode in Eritrea", Evening Post, 25 July 1945
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