The city was home to the Western Approaches Command, which co-ordinated the effort to protect merchant shipping from the German navy in World War II.

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Members of the 4th Platoon try to learn a few Kurdish words over lunch at a command outpost by the Tigris River in the western part of Mosul.

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Standing in our front yard watching a half moon over the Western horizon, I remember wondering whether the crippled Apollo 13 Command Module would ever see splashdown.

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