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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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