No. 1 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force unit headquartered at
RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland. It operates F/A-18F Super Hornet multi-
role fighters (pictured). The squadron formed under the Australian
Flying Corps in 1916 and saw action in the Middle East during World
War I. Initially equipped with obsolete B.E.2s, it converted to Bristol
Fighters in 1917. No. 1 Squadron was re-established as part of the RAAF
in 1925. During World War II, it flew Lockheed Hudson bombers in the
Malayan and Dutch East Indies campaigns, suffering heavy losses. It
later operated Bristol Beauforts and de Havilland Mosquitos. The
squadron re-formed with Avro Lincoln heavy bombers in 1948. From 1950 to
1958 it was based in Singapore, and was responsible for most of the
Commonwealth air campaign during the Malayan Emergency. On returning to
Australia it re-equipped with English Electric Canberra jets. It
operated F-4E Phantoms from 1970 to 1973, as a stop-gap pending delivery
of the F-111C swing-wing bomber. The F-111 remained in service for 37
years until replaced by the Super Hornet in 2010. A detachment has been
deployed to the Middle East since September 2014 as part of Australia's
contribution to the military intervention against ISIL.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._1_Squadron_RAAF>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1554:
Bayinnaung, who later assembled the largest empire in the
history of Southeast Asia, was crowned king of the Burmese Taungoo
Dynasty.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayinnaung>
1838:
In order to avoid persecution by anti-Mormons, Latter Day Saint
movement founder Joseph Smith (pictured), along with his followers, fled
Kirtland, Ohio for Far West, Missouri.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith>
1895:
The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural
Beauty, a conservation organization in England, Wales and Northern
Ireland, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trust_for_Places_of_Historic_Interest_or_Natural_Beauty>
1945:
World War II: The Soviet Union's Red Army crossed the Vistula
River in Poland on their way to invade Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula%E2%80%93Oder_Offensive>
1969:
In American football, the New York Jets upset the Baltimore
Colts to win Super Bowl III in one of the greatest upsets in American
sports history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_III>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
heave in sight:
(nautical) To appear at a distance, to emerge in the field of vision.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heave_in_sight>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall
shake the world.
--Swami Vivekananda
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda>