Sentence examples for headquarters formation from inspiring English sources

From early October, the 6th Division began to take over from US troops, with the first unit to arrive being the 2/6th Cavalry Commando Regiment, which had been formed in early 1943 when the division's cavalry regiment had been converted into a headquarters formation for three commando squadrons: the 2/7th, 2/9th and 2/10th.

The government could still try to eliminate militias in their new form, but it remains doubtful that the state army, usually suited to targeting larger military formations and identifiable headquarters, has the organisation, experience and effectiveness to combat smaller, dispersed units that might continue and even increase their hit-and-run operations.

In October of that year his headquarters became a mobile formation, was redesignated I Corps and placed under Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

This was shortly followed, on 29 October, by the formation of Headquarters 1st Airborne Division under the command of Brigadier F.A.M. Browning, who would have under his control 1st Parachute Brigade, 1st Airlanding Brigade, and the glider units currently training with the two brigades.

The Army's main tactical formations are battlegroups formed around the headquarters of a battalion-sized formation.

Each group was divided into sectors, which received reports from group headquarters about approaching Luftwaffe formations and mobilized squadrons of planes from numerous airfields to fight them off.

About 50 soldiers attached to the People's Liberation Army's regional headquarters in Chengdu marched in formation along the main village street, armed with shovels and picks to help shore up buildings.

The British had actively sought him for this particular appointment, which he commenced in December at the formation's Brussels headquarters.

On 11 September 1944 Specht and the JG 11 Headquarters-flight led a combined formation of II./JG 4 (Sturm) and III./JG 4. Due to Specht's skills, they positioned themselves against thirty-four B-17s of the "Bloody 100th" and fifteen B-17s were downed before the escorting P-51s arrived.

Blackburn organised his men into a brigade formation, consisting of a headquarters and three infantry battalions the men of the 2/2nd Pioneers made up the bulk of Blackforce's 2nd Battalion.

The formation was mixed; Stab., (headquarters flight or Stabschwarm, attached to every Geschwader), I. and II./JG 1 operated the Fw 190 while the III./JG 1 flew the Bf 109.