Sentence examples for command of air from inspiring English sources

As the aircraft meandered through the skies, its fuel supply dwindling, the military coup took place, and army officers took command of air traffic control.

Bostock was decorated twice in 1948 for his war service, in March with the Distinguished Service Order "in recognition of distinguished services whilst in command of air operations in the Borneo Campaign during the period March to September, 1945", and in April with the American Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm.

The Royal Air Force (RAF) and its Second Tactical Air Force under the command of Air Marshal Arthur Coningham moved No. 2 Group RAF, No. 83 Group RAF, No. 84 Group RAF and No. 85 Group RAF to continental Europe in order to provide constant close air support.

These training materials emphasized regional command and control of air defenses.

Pointing out to the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Murdoch, that it was "clearly the Army's intention to have complete command and control" of air-to-ground assets, he warned of a parallel situation in America, where the US Army was looking to take over all battlefield air support in response to the USAF failing to keep up to date in the provision of basic attack aircraft.

Command of the air will be critical.

Douhet's most noted book is Il dominio dell'aria (1921; The Command of the Air, 1942).

Arnim had little chance of recognizing the deception or responding to it after the blow fell because of the Allies' almost total command of the air.

French fliers reclaimed command of the air over the battlefield, and Pétain deployed hundreds of artillery pieces to Verdun, linking many of the new batteries by telephone.

Command of the air over Germany was seized only when American squadrons arrived to augment the Royal Air Force, upend the existing British doctrine of restricting attacks to nighttime and demand pinpoint bombing of specifically identified German military and industrial targets.

Those misgivings seemed to be compounded in recent days by two NATO strikes that, for the first time since NATO took command of the air operations from the United States on March 31, appeared to have caused significant numbers of civilian casualties.