active during the Korean War and its immediate aftermath. It was formed
on 20 October 1950 to administer No. 77 (Fighter) Squadron, No. 30
Communications Flight, No. 391 (Base) Squadron, and No. 491
(Maintenance) Squadron. The wing and its units were headquartered at
Iwakuni, Japan, except for No. 77 Squadron, which was based in Korea
and tasked by the US Fifth Air Force. No. 30 Flight was re-designated
No. 30 Communications Unit in November 1950, No. 30 Transport Unit a
year later, and No. 36 (Transport) Squadron in March 1953. Operating
mainly C-47 Dakotas, it undertook medical evacuation, cargo and troop
transport, and courier flights. No. 77 Squadron converted from P-51
Mustangs to Gloster Meteors (pictured) between April and July 1951, and
operated primarily in the ground attack role. It remained in Korea on
garrison duty following the July 1953 armistice, and returned to
Australia in November 1954; No. 491 Squadron disbanded the same month.
No. 36 Squadron returned to Australia in March 1955; the following
month, No. 391 Squadron and No. 91 Wing headquarters disbanded.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._91_Wing_RAAF>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1572:
Eighty Years' War: Soldiers of the Spanish Tercios waded across
the river Scheldt at its mouth, walking overnight in water to chest
height, to relieve the siege of Goes in the Spanish Netherlands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Goes>
1818:
The United Kingdom and the United States signed the Treaty of
1818, which settled the Canada–United States border on the 49th
parallel between the Rocky Mountains and Lake of the Woods.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_1818>
1941:
World War II: German soldiers began a massacre of thousands of
civilians in Kragujevac in Nazi-occupied Serbia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kragujevac_massacre>
1986:
Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashed on approach to Kurumoch Airport in
Samara (then Kuibyshev in the Soviet Union), killing 70 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_6502>
2011:
Libyan Civil War: Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya,
was captured during the Battle of Sirte and killed less than an hour
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Muammar_Gaddafi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
creature comfort:
(idiomatic, often plural) Any small item or detail that makes a person
feel comfortable and at home.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/creature_comfort>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Denounce ye not one another, ere the Day-Star of ancient eternity
shineth forth above the horizon of His sublimity. We have created you
from one tree and have caused you to be as the leaves and fruit of the
same tree, that haply ye may become a source of comfort to one another.
Regard ye not others save as ye regard your own selves, that no feeling
of aversion may prevail amongst you so as to shut you out from Him Whom
God shall make manifest on the Day of Resurrection. It behooveth you all
to be one indivisible people; thus should ye return unto Him Whom God
shall make manifest.
--The Báb
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/B%C3%A1b>
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