Sentence examples for postwar assignments from inspiring English sources

After a variety of postwar assignments, including command of a second submarine named Trigger, Captain Beach served as naval aide to President Eisenhower from 1953 to 1957.

After postwar assignments in the United States, in September 1948 Walker was transferred to Japan to command the Eighth Army, which constituted the ground arm of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Far East Command.

His postwar assignments took him to France, Germany, Britain, and the United States, where he became a celebrity in the 1960s when his commentaries were featured on the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite".

His postwar assignments included duty at the submarine base at New London, Conn., where he was commanding officer and director of the underwater sound laboratory, and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, where he was commander from 1961 to 1965.

Relates to the naval career of R. R. Pratt, including service on destroyers in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and a variety of postwar assignments in the United States and Europe, and to Pratt family life.

I joined the 29th Naval Construction Battalion, whose postwar assignment saw us traveling to Truk (now called Chuuk), an atoll in the Caroline Islands that had served as headquarters for the Japanese fleet.

Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, a scion of one of Europe's oldest royal families who trained as an Allied paratrooper during World War II and helped liberate Nazi-occupied France — and later suffered 10 months of torture by the Viet Minh during a postwar assignment in French Indochina, died July 7 in Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine

In this divided landscape of rigid role assignment, the postwar he-man was a transgressive figure.

One of MacArthur's first priorities was drafting a constitution for postwar Japan, a top-secret assignment, begun in February 1946, that had to be finished in just seven days.

After a series of operational commands in postwar Korea and in the United States, and assignments in Air Force planning and programs that propelled him up the ranks, General Momyer, now with three stars, was sent to Vietnam in 1966 as commander of the Seventh Air Force and deputy commander for air operations under Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the United States commander in Vietnam.

But the main problem here is not one of repetition so much as emphasis: I sometimes got the impression Daugherty had been writing a book on the postwar cultural ethos when he accepted the Heller assignment, whereupon he decided to merge the two, and not always in favor of his nominal subject.