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103 years ago today in 1919, Ian Douglas Smith was born in Selukwe, a small mining town in Southern Rhodesia. Ian showed much promise from a young age, becoming the captain of his schools tennis, rugby, and cricket teams. His grades were high enough that he was able to attend Rhodes University College in South Africa, a common practice among young Rhodesians as Rhodesia had no university at the time. When World War II broke out in 1939, as a British colony Rhodesia entered the conflict immediately. At this point Smith was halfway through his university courses when the rush of patriotism hit him. Fascinated by the idea of aerial combat he joined the Royal Air Force in 1941 and was deployed to the No. 237 Squadron RAF in the Middle East. Smith crashed his plane when the throttle malfunctioned during a morning takeoff, he suffered serious facial disfigurement and broke his jaw, leg, and shoulder. Surgeons in Cairo reassembled his face using skin grafts and plastic surgeries, a...
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