Joe Hewitt (13 April 1901 – 1 November 1985) rose to be an air vice-
marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Appointed the RAAF's
Assistant Chief of the Air Staff in 1941, he was posted the following
year to Allied Air Forces Headquarters, South West Pacific Area, as
Director of Intelligence. In 1943, he took command of No. 9 Operational
Group, the RAAF's main mobile strike force, but was controversially
sacked by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal George Jones,
less than a year later over alleged morale and disciplinary issues. As
Air Member for Personnel from 1945 to 1948, he was directly responsible
for the consolidation of what was then the world's fourth largest air
force into a much smaller peacetime service. He was appointed a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1951. Retiring from the
military in 1956, he went into business and later managed his own
publishing house. The book Adversity in Success is his first-hand
account of the South West Pacific air war.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hewitt_%28RAAF_officer%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1777:
American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian forces
conducted a surprise attack against a Continental Army outpost at Bound
Brook, New Jersey.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bound_Brook>
1948:
Civil war in Mandatory Palestine: A convoy bringing supplies
and personnel to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital was ambushed by Arab
forces, leaving seventy-nine people dead.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah_medical_convoy_massacre>
1973:
Catch a Fire, the landmark reggae album by Bob Marley and the
Wailers, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_a_Fire>
1997:
In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to
win the US Masters, breaking the tournament's record for the lowest
four-round score (270 strokes, 18 under par).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Department of Redundancy Department:
(humorous) A fictitious department that is cited to draw attention to
needless repetition or excessiveness.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Department_of_Redundancy_Department>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything
likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond
knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the
incurious seeker.
--Samuel Beckett
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett>
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