Sentence examples for commanded air from inspiring English sources

Early in World War II Kesselring commanded air fleets in Poland (September 1939) and France (May June 1940) and during the Battle of Britain (1940 41).

During World War II he commanded air forces in the invasions of Poland and France, the Battle of Britain and Operation Barbarossa.

Up to 16 players can take part in an online multiplayer mode, as you command air, armor, infantry and support units.

He went on to command air bases at Rathmines, Canberra and Townsville during the 1950s and 60s.

Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, he returned to Australia in 1942 to command air bases in Canberra and Melbourne.

Air Commodore Sir John D'Albiac commanded British air forces in Greece.

During the war with Iraq in the 1980s he commanded national air defence.

Mr. Limbaugh has played an important role in elections going back to 1994, when he commanded the air war in the Republican Congressional victory.

The former president's half-brother, Mohammed Saleh al-Ahmar, who commanded the air force and has refused to leave, was accused of shutting down the airport in protest.

He also commanded the air force during the surprise raid on Entebbe on July 4 , 1976 when more than 100 hostages, most of them Israeli, were freed.

He spent the Second World War in the US Air Force, where served under General Curtis LeMay, the notorious hawk who commanded the air campaign against Japan.