Historical Gallery: Habbaniyah

1st Assyrian Rifle Squadron, RAF Levies march down Uxbridge road, early-50's	Aerial view of swimming pool, 1950
Aerial view, 1950	Air Headquarters
Airspeed Oxfords with Hawker Audaxe	American radio specialists at Habbaniya, 1945
Arab Legion Soldiers survey wrecked Iraqi vehicles on Habbaniya-Falluja Highway, May 1941	Armoured Cars, 1952
Astra Cinema, early photo	Blenheims (probably No. 84 Sqn) arrive over Habbaniya, May 1941
Brits training outside of Habbaniya, 1952	Burnt-out Iraqi 3.7'' Howitzer at Sinn Adh Dhibban
Camp sign (with plateau behind), 1954	Captured Italian 'Tankette' at Habbaniya
Comms Flight Valentia - Habbaniya, Iraq 1941	Comms Flight Valentia over Iraq - 1941
Crashed Blenheim (RAF Habbaniya Assoc)	D11E West Billets (interior), 1956
Dependants at Habbaniyah	Entrance sign, 1941
Flight of Wellingtons	Flying Officer D.H. Walsh's Oxford was downed over the plateau, RAF cemetery - Habbaniyah Iraq, 2005
Gladiator in Flight	Gladiator pilots after mission
Golf Habbaniya style, 1952	Habbaniya Church of England, 1941 (photo by Jack Fairs)
Habbaniya Front Gate - 1941	Habbaniya Honor Guard WWII
Habbaniya Mounted Police (only unit of its kind in RAF), 1941 (photo by Jack Fairs)	Habbaniya salvage crew conducting recovery operations
Habbaniya shortly after completion, 1939	Hawker 'Hardys', a cousin of the Audax, over Fallujah
Hawker Audaxe, like the one used for reconnaissance over the Plateau	Iraqi Army propaganda photo, 1941
Iraqi Army, 1941	Lebanese 'Vampire' fighters at Habbaniya, mid-50's
Levies and British friends of the MT Squadron, mid-50's	Levies of the MT Squadron, early-50's
Levy rifle platoon training on the plateau (now known as TQ), mid-40's	Looking through the arches in the Command Gardens, 1957
May 2 Battle	Meteor Mk-8s, 1956
Miniature train used in Habbaniya construction, 1936	No. 1 ACC soldier signals with a semaphore
No. 1 Armoured Car Company Rolls-Royces in 1941	No. 1 Assyrian Rifle Squadron, 1941
No.1 ACC Rolls Royce armoured cars, Carisbrooke and Cambrai	One of the original hangars today - much of the original perimeter's iron fence still exists
Outdoor Cinema, 1956	RAF Gloster Gladiator refuels at a desert airstrip - 1940
RAF P-40 'Kitty-hawk,' of the type that saw baptism of fire at Habbaniya	Rare Shot of an Iraqi BA-65
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani	Royal Exodus fox hunt, 1951
Service with a smile, early-50's	SGT Peku leads Levies on Parade, Habbaniya 1946
Some MT chaps pose near Lorries, mid-50's	St Andrew's Cross (looking towards main gate), 1957
Station Headquarters, 1953	Swimming pool, 1955
Typical Habbaniya billet	Valentia over Baghdad
Very early photo of St George's	Winston Churchill
WWII Iraq Map