Sentence examples for command of a section from inspiring English sources

In September, Gen. Charles Mangin, who had held command of a section of the French defensive line from Fleury to the right bank of the Meuse from June 22, proposed a scheme to liberate the Verdun region.

E Troop for example were now under the command of a section sergeant and had only 20 men left from a complement of 65.

The two French troops were still under command and just for this operation No. 4 Commando took command of a section from the Dutch Troop, No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando, and groups from the Special Boat Section SBS, Royal Engineersrs and the Royal Artillery to call for artillery fire support.

The battle lasted for three days, with Chunuk Bair captured by the brigade's Wellington Infantry Battalion on the second day, during which Bassett, in command of a section of five other signallers of his unit, laid down and maintained telephone lines between brigade headquarters and the front lines.

In turn, the passthrough transistors obey the commands of a section of memory on the chip that acts as a stage director.

In command of an antiaircraft section during the German invasion of 1940, he kept to his post, firing away as others fled, as waves of Stuka dive bombers pounded the city's port.

On the night of 10/11 June 1918, Towner was in command of a machine gun section during an attack to the south of Morlancourt.

It had apparently been proposed to give another navigator, Vicente Sodré, independent command over a section of the fleet, and Cabral strongly opposed this.

In turn, McCay turned to his former schoolmate, John Monash, whom he had appointed to the command of the Victorian section of the new Australian Army Intelligence Corps AICC), with a promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel on 28 March 1908.

On 1 September 1918, Towner was in command of No. 3 Section of the 7th Machine Gun Company during an attack on Mont St. Quentin, near Péronne.

We must say her phallic command of the produce section is impressive.