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Operation Cedar
WWII project to deliver short-range aircraft from the US to the USSR From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Project Cedar (also known as Operation Cedar,[citation needed] short for "Civilian Emergency Defence Aid to Russia"[1]) was a World War II project to deliver short-range aircraft from the United States to the USSR via Abadan, Iran, in the Persian Gulf.[2]
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The project was initiated before the United States' entry into the war,[1] a base was established on Abadan Island in March 1942. Oil tankers, returning from delivering oil to the United States, would take Bell P-39, Curtiss P-40, and Douglas A-20 parts to Abadan, where they were assembled into aircraft and flown to USSR. The 82nd Air Depot Group was part of Project Cedar.[2] Head of the project on the Soviet side was Leonid Ivanovich Zorin.[3]
Another similarly secret operation, Project 19, was set up in Gura,[1] Eritrea, to repair RAF aircraft.[4][5][6]
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