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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/1947-2060 Place Middle East, Asia Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/12/2039

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2039
Title:
Coll 5/77 ‘Muscat: including activities of U.S. Air Force and Pan-American Airways in the Middle East’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the operations of Pan American Airlines in the Middle East; British officials were concerned that the airline was using the war as a pretext for commercial penetration of British controlled territories. The file therefore covers the militarisation of Pan American Airli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1941-19 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (206 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2049

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2049
Title:
Coll 5/84(4) ‘Middle East Summaries from Ministry of Civil Aviation’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of Ministry of Civil Aviation Middle East Intelligence Summaries – Numbers 1 to 8 – which have been supplied to the India Office. The summaries cover independent countries (Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Ethiopia), sovereignties previously u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1946-6 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2052

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2052
Title:
Coll 5/85 ‘Airfield at Dharan for U.S.A.A.F.: Proposal to construct new airport at Bahrain (Hamala)’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with proposals for the construction of an airfield – suitable for very heavy bombers – at Dhahran by the United States Army Air Transport Command as a wartime necessity, and applications from the United States to the United Kingdom for the latters support in obtaining permi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1944-14 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (259 folios)