The airfield received United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 12, 1945 as he flew from the Yalta Conference to rejoin the USS Quincy, which was anchored in the Great Bitter Lake and would host the President's meetings with King Farouk of Egypt, King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia before transporting him back to the United States.
In the fighting Sakel's forces suffered heavy losses and his forces defended the Southern part of the Great Bitter Lake.
Fanara, Egypt, a community located on the west side of the Suez Canal in the vicinity of Great Bitter Lake
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It was relocated from India to Egypt in the middle of August 1939 and trained at Fayed in Ismailia Governorate on the Great Bitter Lake.
Lieutenant Roy O. Hesketh (born 1915 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; died September 19, 1944 above Great Bitter Lake, Egypt) was a South African racing driver and South African Air Force pilot.