Sentence examples for fighters group from inspiring English sources

Most of the former detainees were members of the Libyan Islamic Fighters Group, who were dedicated to the overthrow of the Qaddafi government.

The NDAA proposes mandating that 25percentt of all U.S. military assistance to Iraq next year go directly to the Kurds and to Sunni fighters, groups that have both felt marginalized by the Shiite-run government in Baghdad for years.

His eventual successor as commander of the fighter group was Hermann Göring.

Colonel Cochran, who died in 1979, had been a successful fighter group commander in North Africa.

A fighter group commander in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, he was killed in an air crash.

In September 1942 he transferred to the USAAF, remaining in Britain and flying with the fourth fighter group of the Eighth Air Force fighter command.

By war's end, the Fourth Fighter Group was credited with destroying 1,020 German aircraft, 550 shot out of the air and 470 hit while on the ground.

Parks next became the War Office of Information's first black photographer, during which time he documented the 332nd fighter group, the first US squadron of African-American pilots.

By the end of the war, the Fourth Fighter Group was credited with destroying 1,020 German aircraft, 550 shot out of the air and 470 hit while on the ground.

Lt. Ward de Canizares flew a single-engine P-47 Thunderbolt in the Zemke fighter group, which engaged in combat with Germany's formidable Messerschmitt 109's before D-Day.

The fourth fighter group ended the war with a record tally of more than 1,000 German aircraft either shot down or destroyed on the ground, achieving another record by downing 31 aircraft in a single day.