鈥淭here was a perception that this region had very little involvement in the war,鈥� said Athol Yates, a professor at Khalifa University, who has written widely on this period.
鈥淲hat hasn鈥檛 been known is how Sharjah became important in late 1944 and 1945 as a logistics base and navigational point to allow large amounts of aircraft to move east to west and back.鈥�
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