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The Invasion of Oat Oraki
Stephanie Coontz takes us through the actual day itself. So sedam invades at a round two a m local time, august secondl that's the official timings in the history. The pilot asked for a briefing and was told by british embassy it was safe to fly but they weren't. A plane is sent to caa where all other planes are turned away. And without giving too much away, there's an important moment in the history of ba. One four nine on that day, it's sitting on the runway. To be honest, they didn't think they were going to stop at coate. Everybody'd heard the news about the troops gathering
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