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Major General Alan Bishop Stretton (30 September 1922 – 26 October 2012) was a senior Australian Army officer. Stretton was born in 1922 in Melbourne.〔(STRETTON, Alan Bishop ), Who's Who in Australasia and the Far East, Melrose Press, 1989, p.531〕 He came to public prominence through his work in charge of cleanup efforts at Darwin in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Day 1974.〔 As head of the National Disasters Organisation he managed the evacuation of 35,000 people in six days, including loading a jumbo jet with 769 passengers, then a record for the most people aloft in the one aircraft. ==Early years== Stretton was educated at Caulfield Grammar School〔("His Hobby— Alan Stretton with his fantail pigeons at the exhibition of hobbies held at the Caulfield Grammar School yesterday" ), ''The Argus'', Tuesday, 9 December 1930, p.5.〕 and Scotch College, Melbourne.〔 After graduating from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, he began his military career serving with the 2/9th Battalion during the Second World War.〔Wallace Crouch (31 December 1974) (Darwin's Dictator for a week ), The Sydney Morning Herald, p.4〕〔Dickens 2005, p. x.〕
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