Image of Evacuation by air: refugees awaiting their turn at Peshawar Airport by English Photographer, (20th century)

Evacuation by air: refugees awaiting their turn at Peshawar Airport for the flight to India...

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IMAGE number: SXT1154258
Image title: Evacuation by air: refugees awaiting their turn at Peshawar Airport for the flight to India during the Partition Migration, 1947 (b/w photo)
Photographer: English Photographer, (20th century) / English
Medium: black and white photograph
Date: 1947 AD (C20th AD)

Image description: BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) are assisting in the greatest air evacuation of all time. Day and night refugees wait jam packed in shanty towns on airfield fringes for flight passages for India and in the reverse direction to Pakistan. Thousands are being ferried this way in safety over the troubled frontier areas. In one instance 63 persons were carried in a twin engine Dakota, a record for this type of aeroplane.
Photo credit: Sean Sexton Collection / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: airport / 1940s / 20th century / plane / aviation / transport / child / India / Asia / post-war / violence / 40s / frontier / escape / migrants / unrest / historical / british empire / fleeing / pakistani / refugees / evacuation / imperial / record-breaking / evacuee / waiting / riots / indian / aircraft / social history / air evacuation / escaping / photography / independence / hindu / plane / british overseas airways corporation / forties / aeroplane / refugee / airfield / early photography / partition / migrant / evacuees / muslim / history / boac / sikh / dakota / hindus / sikhs / peshawar / pakistan / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto

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