Royal Air Force in the Middle East, 1944-1945. Children wait outside a soup kitchen for the signal to receive their twice-daily soup ration in Shibam, in the Hadhramaut region of the British Aden Protectorate. Standing among them are RAF relief workers and a civilian official. During 1943 and 1944, the Hadhramaut was hit badly by drought and a loss of foreign remittances, leading to starvation and the death of some 10,000 people in the region. From May 1944 the RAF Famine Relief Flight airlifted a daily total of 24 tons of grain into El Qatn landing ground, from where it was taken by RAF trans
Royal Air Force in the Middle East, 1944-1945. Children wait outside a soup kitchen for the signal to receive their twice-daily soup ration in Shibam, in the Hadhramaut region of the British Aden Protectorate. Standing among them are RAF relief workers and a civilian official. During 1943 and 1944, the Hadhramaut was hit badly by drought and a loss of foreign remittances, leading to starvation and the death of some 10,000 people in the region. From May 1944 the RAF Famine Relief Flight airlifted a daily total of 24 tons of grain into El Qatn landing ground, from where it was taken by RAF transport and camel train to soup kitchens set up in the towns. These fed as many as 15,000 people twice daily.
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