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Old 4th August 2005, 00:36
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Re: Passenger connection Washington-Kunming

The RAF flew from the Middle East to India but tended (not always) to go via Lydda in Palestine and Habbiniya in Iraq. There are a couple of Transport Command histories. To generalize, it was not until 1944 that it was running substantial numbers of four-engine transports on regular missions to India.
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