[Six Day War / Tapline map] USAF Operational Navigation Chart ONC H-6 Persian Gulf, 3rd Edition, Scale 1:1,000,000 (Bahrain, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trucial States)

Colour printed paper map 147x105cm. Very good, neatly folded. Base information October 1959, revised March 1967, air information current through 3 April 1967, lithographed by W.P.L. 7-67. This was issued in the aftermath of the Six Day War (5-10 June), which saw the Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline) come under threat. Israel took over the section passing through the Golan Heights and allowed operations to continue, effectively and somewhat embarrassingly making it one of its "transit states". At this time King Faisal refocused Saudi foreign policy to supporting Palestinian rights. Roughly centred on the Saudi-Iraq Neutral Zone, this covers all of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, both Neutral Zones, large parts of Saudi Arabia including key Eastern Province Aramco locations (Dhahran, Ras Tanura etc), Iraq (including Basrah and as far north as Najaf), and Iran (including Abadan, Bushire, Ahwaz). Colour tinted for altitude with contours, spot heights, notes and about terrain (with large areas labelled "relief data incomplete"); international boundaries (marked as approximate or undetermined); settlements of various size; rail, roads and tracks; power lines; Tapline with its pumping stations, etc. Aeronautical information includes different types of aerodrome (several marked abandoned or not usable), vertical obstructions with heights, warnings, etc.…