William Hopton Anderson (30 December 1891 – 30 December 1975) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He flew with the Australian Flying Corps in World War I, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Belgian Croix de guerre for his combat service with No. 3 Squadron on the Western Front in 1917. At the outbreak of World War II, Anderson was Air Member for Supply. In 1940, he acted as Chief of the Air Staff between the resignation of Air Vice-Marshal Stanley Goble in January and the arrival of Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett of the Royal Air Force (RAF) the next month. Anderson led the newly formed Central and Eastern Area Commands between December 1940 and July 1943, returning to the Air Board as Air Member for Organisation and Equipment from September 1941 to May 1942. He was the founding commandant of the RAAF Staff School from July to November 1943, after which he was appointed Air Member for Personnel. (Full article...).
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1845:
The University of Galway, University College Cork and Queen's University Belfast were established as part of the Queen's University of Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_University_Belfast
1935:
Second Italo-Ethiopian War: In retaliation for the execution of an Italian prisoner of war, the Italian Air Force destroyed a field hospital of the Swedish Red Cross in Dolo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolo_hospital_airstrike
2000:
A series of bombings occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippines, killing 22 people and injuring around 100 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizal_Day_bombings
2005:
Tropical Storm Zeta became a tropical depression, making it the record-breaking 28th tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the most active in recorded history until 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Zeta
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glow: 1. (intransitive) 2. To emit heat and light without a flame. 3. Of a fire: to emit heat and light. 4. To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine. 5. To be very hot; also, to be on fire; to burn. 6. (figurative) 7. Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour. 8. Of a person: to display intense emotion. 9. Of a person's body or a part of it: to feel hot and often to flush (“become suffused with a reddish colour”) as well, due to an emotional response, exertion, etc. 10. (chiefly US, Internet slang) To be involved in an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies. [...] 11. (transitive) 12. (archaic or obsolete) To emit (flame). [...] 13. (obsolete) To make (something) hot; to heat. [...] 14. About Word of the Day 15. Nominate a word 16. Leave feedback https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glow
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