RAF El Daba

El Daba Airfield Complex was a military cluster of airfields used during World War II located approximately 4.6 kilometres south-southeast of the village. El Daba was a pre–World War II airfield, one of a number of DLGs created in the Western Desert of Egypt after the Munich Crisis of the late 1930s. During World War II, it was used as a military airfield by the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces during the North African campaign against Axis forces, and by the Luftwaffe.