Sidi Haneish Airfield
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Sidi Haneish Airfield
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Sidi Haneish Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield complex in Egypt, in the western desert, about 376 km west-northwest of Cairo. The airfield, known as Haggag el Qasaba by the German Luftwaffe, was the location of one of the most daring raids during World War II by the British Special Air Service (SAS). On the night of 26 July 1942, SAS Detachment "L", also known as "Stirling's Raiders", attacked the airfield, then under Luftwaffe control. Driving a convoy of eighteen jeeps, e
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidi_Haneish_Airfield
date created:
2009-08-27T16:10:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T04:39:39Z
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