Sentence examples for held command 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.

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.

He has held command positions at Coventry, Smethwick and Solihull.

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

He held command positions in the Egyptian air force and from 1966 to 1969 was director of the air academy.

Foch in the meantime also had held commands and served on various staffs, thus adding to his experience and judgment.

He commanded the expedition on which Sir Richard Grenville and the Revenge were lost (1591), and he held commands in the Cadiz and Islands voyages (1596 97).

He held commands on both the Eastern and Western fronts, played a major role in defeating France in 1940, and led much of the opposition to the Allied offensive in the West in 1944 45.

He held commands in Thrace, North Africa, and the East against Persia, and was slated to command the final Byzantine expedition against the Ostrogoths.

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.