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The first DH9 aircraft to take off from Obozerskaya airfield carrying M Bombs, 27 August 1919. Six bombs were carried externally (arrowed), 34 internally. The Battle of Bolshie Ozerki was a major engagement fought during the Allied North Russia Intervention in the Russian Civil War. A force of British, American, Polish, and White Russian troops engaged several Red Army partisan regiments at the village of Bolshie Ozerki, (Arkhangelsk Oblast), Russia. The Airco DH.9 was a British single-engined biplane bomber.