Ian Dougald McLachlan (23 July 1911 – 14 July 1991) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). A Duntroon cadet before he joined the Air Force, McLachlan took command of No. 3 Squadron in December 1939, leading it into action in the Middle East less than a year later. He was posted to the South West Pacific in 1943, commanding successively Nos. 71 and 73 Wings. He took over Southern Area Command in 1944, and No. 81 Wing in the Dutch East Indies the following year. Raised to air commodore in 1946, McLachlan served with the British Commonwealth Air Group in Japan until 1948. After leading North-Eastern Area Command in 1951–53, he attended the Imperial Defence College, London. Promoted to air vice marshal, he returned to Australia in 1957 as Air Officer Commanding Training Command, carrying out major reviews on the RAAF's educational and command systems. He was Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in 1959–61, and then Head of the Australian Joint Services Staff in Washington, DC, until 1963. McLachlan's final post before retiring in 1968 was as Air Member for Supply and Equipment. He was a consultant to Northrop after leaving the RAAF.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1829:

William Austin Burt was awarded a patent for the typographer, the first practical typewriting machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographer_(typewriter)

1914:

Austria-Hungary presented Serbia with an ultimatum to allow them to investigate the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, that Serbia would ultimately reject, leading to World War I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Crisis

1942:

The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp began operation, killing 6,500 Jews who had been transported from the Warsaw Ghetto the day before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treblinka_extermination_camp

1970:

Qaboos overthrew his father Said bin Taimur to become Sultan of Oman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaboos_bin_Said_al_Said

1986:

Sarah Ferguson married Prince Andrew, Duke of York at Westminster Abbey, joining the British Royal Family as the Duchess of York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah,_Duchess_of_York

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

mare's nest: 1. A great discovery which turns out to be illusory; a hoax. 2. A confused or complicated situation; a muddle. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mare%27s_nest

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.   --Anthony Kennedy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy