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PHOTOCOPIED October 2, 2002;  NASM PRESERVATION COPY

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U.S. Air Force Photo

[[caption]] FEAF DEPUTY FOR OPERATIONS HONORED AT FAREWELL PARTY–Maj. Gen. Jacob E. Smart (second from left), Far East Air Forces Deputy for Operations, was honored Friday night with a farewell party at the University Club in Tokyo.  Smart and his family will leave Tokyo May 6 for a two-week leave in Hawaii before he takes over as Assistant Vice-Chief of Staff at U.S. Air Force Headquarters in Washington.  From left are Mrs. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.;  Smart;  Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., FEAF Director of Operations and Training;  Joan Smart, the General's daughter, and Gen. Earle E. Partridge, FEAF Commander.  Smart has been Deputy for Operations at FEAF Headquarters since December 1951, and directed the command's air operations during much of the Korean War.  He will be replaced by Maj. Gen. Hunter Harris, Jr., now Deputy Director of Plans in the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at Headquarters, USAF. [[/caption]]