Gura, Eritrea
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Gura or Gura'e is a settlement in Eritrea's Debub region in northeast Africa. It is located in the eponymous Gura Valley in the southeastern Eritrean Highlands. It is about 9 kilometers SE of Dekemhar
The area around Gura
Emperor Yohannes IV, victor at Gura.
Project 19
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Project 19 was the code name for a secret United States operation in Eritrea, begun before American entry into World War II and continued during the war. It executed aircraft repair and operated an as
Gura, Eritrea
…it hosted a Royal Air Force (RAF) support base and an Australian field hospital. As an adjunct to the Lend-Lease Act, a secret expansion of the base —Project 19— was established with the US government. In 1943, two SM.75 GA aircraft undertook a bombing mission, the only one made by an SM.75, intended to destroy…
The Gura airfield in 1943, with Douglas C-47s parked in dispersal areas
A radial aircraft engine, crated on a pallet, is loaded aboard a C-47 at the depot.
Eritrean laborers unload freight from a C-47, November 1942.
Barracks for the Douglas Aircraft workers at Gura. Camp water tower behind.