Sentence examples for command fighter from inspiring English sources

Lieutenant Tyler was not disciplined for failing to follow up on the report and went on to command fighter units in the Pacific during the war, receiving the Legion of Merit.

The 19th Air Brigade was formed in June 1944 to command fighter units in the Western District, and comprised the 4th and 59th Air Regiments.

Loisel commanded Fighter Groups in both World War II and Korea, along with several peacetime commands.

When asked on Sunday about the looting and arson, the former Qaddafi military colonel who commands fighters in the mountains, Mukhtar Farnana, had little to say beyond being careful to insist that any looting was not officially sanctioned.

According to Mr. Pham, Mr. Abdikadir first moved to Somalia around 2006, where he commanded fighters from Kenya, including ethnic Kenyans and members of the Somali diaspora who had returned to fight.

In three years he flew more than 420 combat sorties, shot down 33 enemy aircraft and possibly more, and rose to command a fighter wing.

Saville removed a degree of independent command from fighter squadron leaders who previously could ignore instructions radioed from the ground.

Initially there was no one there and nothing to do until Brigadier General Paul Wurtsmith, the commander of Fifth Fighter Command, organized a refresher session for the new pilots at Charters Towers Airport.

Felat was assigned to command forty-five fighters, and then three hundred.

Once notified, the command readied fighters for takeoff but never felt it necessary to launch them.

According to his official biography, he has commanded a fighter squadron, an operations group and three fighter wings.