Military career of Ian Smith
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Military career of Ian Smith
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The future Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War, interrupting his studies at Rhodes University in South Africa to join up in 1941. Following a year's pilot instruction in Southern Rhodesia under the Empire Air Training Scheme, he was posted to No. 237 (Rhodesia) Squadron, then stationed in the Middle East, in late 1942. Smith received six weeks' operational training in the Levant, then entered active service as a pilot officer in Iran
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1941–1945 military career of the future Rhodesian Prime Minister
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_career_of_Ian_Smith
date created:
2013-04-26T19:31:02Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T03:48:18Z
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