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Lake Habbaniyah

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Lake Habbaniyah
Lake Habbaniyah
Coordinates	33°17′43″N 43°27′10″E / 33.29528°N 43.45278°E / 33.29528; 43.45278
Primary inflows	Euphrates River
Primary outflows	Lake Milh
Basin countries	Iraq

Surface area	140 km² (54 sq mi)

U.S. Army helicopter over Lake Habbaniyah, May 2008

Lake Habbaniyah (Arabic: بحيرة الحبانية Buḥayrat al-Ḥabbāniya) is a lake located halfway between Ramadi and Fallujah near Al-Taqaddum (TQ) Air Base in Al Habbaniyah in Anbar Province, Iraq.^[1]

In the late 1930s and 1940s Lake Habbaniyah was used by Imperial Airways as a refueling point and hotel for flying boats flying from the United KingdomtoIndia.^[2] Nearby on the banks of the Euphrates had already been established the Royal Air Force airbaseofRAF Dhibban, later renamed RAF Habbaniya.^[3]

Lake Habbaniya Sailing Club, 1954

It was the scene of action during the Rashid Ali rebellion Anglo-Iraqi War when the RAF trainee aircrew and troops stationed there effectively saw off the besieging Iraqi troops and subsequent German aerial attacks.^[4]

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^ Duraid Adnan and Timothy Williams (23 August 2009). "Dancing by the Waves, Iraqis Forget War for a Day". New York Times. Retrieved 26 December 2015.

^ Dudgeon, Mike (2010). "No. 4 SFTS and Raschad Ali's War - Iraq 1941". Journal of the Royal Air Force Historical Society (48). London: Royal Air Force Historical Society: 41. ISSN 1361-4231.

^ Fairbairn, Tony (1991). Action stations overseas. Sparkford: P. Stephens. p. 82. ISBN 1-85260-319-4.

^ Dudgeon, Mike (2010). "No. 4 SFTS and Raschad Ali's War - Iraq 1941". Journal of the Royal Air Force Historical Society (48). London: Royal Air Force Historical Society: 47. ISSN 1361-4231.

^ "Iraq." World Geography: Understanding a Changing World, ABC-CLIO, 2018, worldgeography2.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1121196. Accessed 10 Apr. 2018.