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1915
A “Half Flight” of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) embarked for service in MESOPOTAMIA. Following a request from the British Government in India for air support for the Indian troops fighting the Turks in Mesopotamia, the AFC, still in its infancy, could provide enough air and ground crews for only half of a flight
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1941
ANZAC troops, faced with the advance of the numerically stronger and better organised German troops, withdrew to the THERMOPYLAE LINE, Greece