Sentence examples for he held command of from inspiring English sources

Promoted to wing commander, he held command of No. 1 BAGS, operating Fairey Battle single-engined bombers, from August 1940 until November 1941.

He held command of the Ypres salient for three years and gained an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the battle of Messines in 1917.

He held command of No. 1 Flying Training School at Point Cook from January 1938 to November 1939, receiving appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1938 King's Birthday Honours, and promotion to group captain in July the same year.

By March 1916, Hipper suffered from severe combat fatigue; he had held command of the fleet reconnaissance forces for some 20 months, and the strain of command was beginning to take its toll.

Wing Commander Charles Read held command of No. 1 SFTS from October 1943 until its disbandment on 15 September 1944, by which time almost 3,000 pilots had graduated.

At the time, the commanding officer of No. 3 Squadron also held command of RAAF Station Richmond.

Overhead, royal albatrosses, like flying white aeronauts, held command of the sky.

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.

Klenau, promoted to General der Kavallerie (full general) on 26 July 1813, held command of an independent corps in the Army of Bohemia.

In any case, competence had little to do with Cao's double-time promotions and his holding command of the 7th Division astride the main road thirty-five milesouthth of Saigon.

They built the lead to more than 20 points in the second half, and held command the rest of the way.