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In January 1915, Captain P W L Broke-Smith, Assistant Director of the Indian Flying Corps, set to work to establish an airfield at Basra, in Mesopotamia.<ref>"Only A Sideshow? The RFC And RAF In Mesopotamia 1914-1918" by Guy Warner. Refer [[Royal Air Force#External links|External links]]</ref> A small group of pilots from the Indian Army operated in Mesopotamia, described both as the Indian Flying Corps,<ref>Old Man. [httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.comorg/forumstopic/index.php?showtopic=210583 -seeking-info-on-rnas-unit-in-mesopotamia-sept-1915june-1916/ Seeking Info On R.N.A.S. Unit In Mesopotamia, Sept. 1915;June 1916] ''Great War Forum'' thread 27 April 2014, quoting "The Indian Flying Corps and the Australian Half-Flight", by Dr. Brian P. Flanagan. ''Cross and Cockade Journal'' (Summer, 1976, vol 17 no 2) , the US journal, now renamed ''Over the Front'' . Retrieved 17 August 2019. </ref> or the Mesopotamia Flight, Royal Flying Corps<ref>Page 142, ''Cavalry Of The Clouds Aspects of the Air War in the Eastern Theatre,1914-1918'', by CH. Whitley 1997 . Refer [[Royal Air Force#External links|External links]]</ref>, to which was attached an Australian contingent, known as the Mesopotamia Half Flight, or Australian Half Flight.