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Operation Cedar

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WWII project to deliver short-range aircraft from the US to the USSR
For the KGB Cold War program against the United States, seeOperation Cedar (KGB).

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Project Cedar (also known asOperation Cedar,[citation needed] short for "Civilian Emergency Defence Aid to Russia"[1]) was aWorld War II project to deliver short-range aircraft from theUnited States to theUSSR viaAbadan, Iran, in thePersian Gulf.[2]

The project was initiated before the United States' entry into the war,[1] a base was established onAbadan Island in March 1942.Oil tankers, returning from delivering oil to the United States, would takeBell P-39,Curtiss P-40, andDouglas A-20 parts to Abadan, where they were assembled into aircraft and flown to USSR. The82nd Air Depot Group was part of ProjectCedar.[2] Head of the project on the Soviet side was Leonid Ivanovich Zorin.[3]

Another similarly secret operation,Project 19, was set up inGura,[1]Eritrea, to repair RAF aircraft.[4][5][6]

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  1. ^abcT. H. Vail Motter, ed. (1952).United States Army in World War II: Middle East Theatre, The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia.Washington: Office of the Chief of Military History Department of the Army. p. 125.
  2. ^abCarol Adele Kelly, ed. (2007).Voices of My Comrades: America's Reserve Officers Remember World War II.New York City:Fordham University Press. p. 212.ISBN 978-0-8232-2823-2.
  3. ^T. H. Vail Motter, ed. (1952).United States Army in World War II: Middle East Theatre, The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia.Washington: Office of the Chief of Military History Department of the Army. p. 129.
  4. ^"Project 19 - US repair base for British aircraft in Eritrea ", American Military History site
  5. ^"Boeing & Douglas: A History of Customer Service", Boeing.com
  6. ^"Episode in Eritrea", Evening Post, 25 July 1945
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