Spear of the Nation was an armed wing of which group?
Day of Reconciliation December is the anniversary of the 1961 founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation" or MK), the armed wing of the ANC. On that day, Umkhonto we Sizwe enacted its "first acts of sabotage" which included bomb blasts against government buildings in Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Durban. Also on 16 December 1961, the Umkhonto we Sizwe distributed leaflets describing how the group "will carry on the struggle for freedom and democracy by new methods, which are necessary to complement the actions of the established national liberation organsations." When Apartheid ended, it was decided to keep 16 December as
Air Wing of the Armed Forces of Malta the nation had no official military aviation of its own until gaining independence in 1964 (and the building of an independent national military that followed). The Air Wing was founded as an operational branch of the Armed Forces of Malta in the early 1970s. The Air Wing serves primarily as a support branch of the ground forces and Maritime Squadron of the AFM and has so far never operated combat aircraft. The Air Wing's current Commanding Officer is Lieutenant Colonel James T. Grech. In a bilateral agreement with Italy, the Italian Air Force provided two AB 212 helicopters to perform