Takoradi air route
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Takoradi air route, used to fly Allied aircraft reinforcements between the Gold Coast and Egypt, and to ferry
Lend-Lease aircraft to the USSR. The route was pioneered between the wars and in 1936 Imperial Airways began running a weekly service over part of it, between Lagos in Nigeria and Khartoum in the Sudan. When Italy entered the war, in June 1940, it was decided to use the route with its series of landing strips to fly reinforcements to the
Western Desert Air Force fighting in the
Western Desert campaigns. Aircraft were either shipped to Takoradi, assembled there, then flown the 6,450 km. (4,000 mi.) across Africa to Khartoum, and then up to Abu Sueir on the Suez canal near Cairo; or they were flown to Takoradi from the USA using Brazil and Ascension Island as staging posts. The Free French
Fezzan campaigns kept the Italians from encroaching on the route's airfields.
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