Even a mere Under-Secretary-General has the authority to order fleets of warships, squadrons of planes, and teams of crack commandos into action.
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.
As the decade slipped over into the Sixties, more and more squadrons of planes flew over the San Francisco city peaks, loaded with materiel, explosives, and herbicides for the rice fields and forests of South East Asia.
Hitler, preparing to send huge numbers of troops to the Soviet Union, could spare only two squadrons of planes for Iraq, and these were unable to stop a makeshift British battalion sent from Palestine — it included buses from the streets of Haifa — as it made its way across the desert to Baghdad.
Squadrons of planes can save fuel by flying in a V formation, and many scientists suspect that migrating birds do the same.
Around the feeders, the hummingbirds buzzed by our ears like a squadron of propeller planes.
Meteorologists said their efforts to prevent foul weather on Oct. 1 involved satellites, 400 scientists, cloud-probing lasers and a squadron of transport planes capable of sprinkling liquid nitrogen into pregnant clouds.
Once inside the main building, the yacht's 68-meter wing sail is clearly visible, suspended from the rafters of the huge shed that looks as if it could comfortably accommodate a squadron of fighter planes.
Writer Ignas Šeinius claimed that he observed the same squadron of Soviet planes making the same flight over and over again to create an impression of much larger Soviet Air Forces.
